Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Death Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

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They never fail who die in a great cause.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]

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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

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I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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