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Humans Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
- It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant…
- Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody…
- The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
- The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
- [There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy,…
- 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…
- There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where…
- Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and…
- The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man…
- 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…
- When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the…
- Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in…
- Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
- The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on…
- Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.
- I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd…
- The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old…
- It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
- Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken…
- The true object of human life is play.
- Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — 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
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong