With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFor Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhat is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.
Gilbert K. Chesterton