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Living Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable…
- The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living…
- The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare…
- We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the…
- Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important…
- A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead…
- A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
- Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that…
- The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage,…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
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