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Plato was right, but not quite right.

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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  1. There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is…
  2. The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to eac…
  3. Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
  4. It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
  5. These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
  6. A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
  7. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. Th…
  8. What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.

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  • philosophy
  • truth
  • wisdom
  • criticism
  • knowledge
  • plato

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