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Force Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men…
- Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely…
- Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is…
- The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe…
- The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these…
- It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might…
More Force Quotes
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- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated… — Ibrahim Babangida
- The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,… — Charles Babbage