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Thus Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight…
- 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…
- 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…
- The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other…
- The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences…
- But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a…
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- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus… — Abu Bakr
- Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac
- Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. — Dave Barry
- It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling. — Pierre Bayle
- The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' — Ludwig van Beethoven
- We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector,… — Carol Bellamy
- Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an… — Pope Benedict XVI