Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Self Quotes, Criticism Quotes

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

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Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

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The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

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Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

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Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

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Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

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To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

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When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

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