Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
Quote by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
- The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
- Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
- I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
- Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
- Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Best Quotes
- I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.
- There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
- Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
- Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
- The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
- Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
- Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.