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Mean Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
- What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
- To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
- Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
- Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to…
- A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
- The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
- We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners…
- Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
- Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf;…
- 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…
- By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
- Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not…
- Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
- The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is…
- The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not…
- The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing…
- Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
- 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…
- Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue…
- I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
- Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as…
- We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.
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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 hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams