The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTeach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.
Gilbert K. Chesterton