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Things Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
- The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if…
- A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
- 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.
- The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
- The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
- All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you…
- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is…
- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and…
- What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in…
- It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is…
- I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion…
- There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really…
- These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are…
- 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…
- Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure…
- The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
- The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
- Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.
- 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…
- The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the…
- A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will…
- It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle