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Less Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
- The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if…
- There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.
- 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…
- 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…
- There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.
- Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is…
- There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
- We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by…
- Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men…
- 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,…
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. — Jane Austen