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Great Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- 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…
- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book…
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
- The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and…
- I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to…
- The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions;…
- I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did…
- It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism…
- Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was…
- "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
- There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with…
- A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
- America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in…
- The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
- The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much…
- He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw…
- Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we…
- Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
- A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels…
- A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
- All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we…
- A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong