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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Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

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A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

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

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We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

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Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

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A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

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Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

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

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Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

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When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

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It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

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

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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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I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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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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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

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