Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Opposites Quotes, Balance Quotes

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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I think it's fair to say that [Donald Trump] and I are sort of opposites in some ways.

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But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

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Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

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The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

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The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.

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It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

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Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

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There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.

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I've done a lot of independent film, which are short shoots that are usually four to six weeks, max. I enjoy everything. After one particular experience of work, I like to go in the opposite direction and do a short film, or something else.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

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As long as the National Socialist Movement is leading Germany-and that will be the case for the next few centuries, no matter how often our emigrants conjure up the opposite view- this opinion will not change.

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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

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The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

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In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

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