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Mere Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints…
- The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere…
- When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that…
- It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism…
- The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for…
- Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in…
- 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…
- IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their…
- I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly…
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- 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…
- Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…
- The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong,…
More Mere Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a… — Honore de Balzac
- The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. — Douglas Adams
- Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that… — Tyra Banks
- Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere… — Mario Batali
- Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere… — Evan Bayh
- Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. — Joseph Addison
- Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the… — Annie Besant
- No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. — Theodore Bikel
- The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker