Cult Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cult Growth Inspirational Progress Progress of society Superlatives
“As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Judging the existence by comparison is not always the best pathway to progress. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
Progress depends on our changing the world to fit us, not the other way around. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important. — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical to the health of the capitalist system that empathy… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
I really hate those Internet freaks who take each thirty minute bundle of joy and turn it into a cult game of Where's Wally. — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need… — Jerome Flynn Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Once I knew what I was doing I was there and with it; I had the total knowing. I Googled God and orgasmed At… — Initially NO Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
