Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Facts Quotes

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

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The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

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The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

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I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

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More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

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But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

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Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.

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If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

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By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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