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Ends Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power…
- We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
- Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure…
- It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
- Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you…
- The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries,…
- I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that…
- A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic…
- We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world…
- Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
- If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace…
- Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I…
- My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.
- In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter…
- Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
- If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development,…
- When [a politician] is in opposition, he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky