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This World Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The…
- The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place.…
- We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The…
- My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.
- There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put…
- We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of…
- The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do…
More This World Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. — Antonin Artaud
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- This world's a bubble. — Saint Augustine
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have… — Kevin Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon