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Means Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 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.
- Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
- 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 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…
- 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…
- Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.
- All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
- Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery…
- Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic…
- Faith means believing the unbelievable.
- A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
- Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.
- A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
- We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain…
- Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention…
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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
- 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
- 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
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange