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Theory Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
- Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of…
- I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is…
- There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with…
- As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized,…
- The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much…
- Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the…
- The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than…
- The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of…
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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
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- People love conspiracy theories. — Neil Armstrong
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. — Russell Baker
- I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so… — Christian Bale
- Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. — Hosea Ballou
- A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach
- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here,… — Douglas Adams
- Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number… — Evan Bayh
- All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize… — Ulrich Beck
- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. — Yogi Berra