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"The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man."
Quote by -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
Quote by -Leo Tolstoy
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Quote by -Jane Austen
Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
Quote by -Jean-Claude Van Damme
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.
Quote by -Lenny Bruce
Numerous are the academic chairs, but rare are wise and noble teachers. Numerous and large are the lecture halls, but far from numerous the young people who genuinely thirst for truth and justice.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn’t always have a lot to do with objective truth
Quote by -Stephen King
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Quote by -Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.
Quote by -Aristotle
The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Quote by -Buddha
“It has been often said, very truely, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“The center of every man’s existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“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 wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“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 sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness – or so good as drink.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Charity means pardoning the unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. 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 at all.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
Quote by -Mahatama Gandhi
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it. (Young India 1924-1926)
Quote by -Mahatama Gandhi