Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: These are the days
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” —G K Chesterton.
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Voltaire: Guilty
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.” —Voltaire, philosopher (21 Nov 1694-1778).
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Lester Bangs: Only true currency
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” —Lester Bangs in Almost Famous.
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Robert B Cialdini: Attitude
“Often we don’t realize that our attitude toward something has been influenced by the number of times we have been exposed to it in the past.” ― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
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Marlo Thomas: Never face facts
“Never face facts, if you do you’ll never get up in the morning.” —Marlo Thomas.
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Horace Mann: Addition to human power
“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.” —Horace Mann, education reformer.
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Warren Buffett: Take the job
“Take the job that you would take if you were independently wealthy.” —Warren Buffett.
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Simon Sinek: Work and passion
“Work is expending effort on things we don’t want to do. Passion is expending energy on things we love to do. The goal is to do no work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nadine Gordimer: Truth isn’t always beauty
“The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” —Nadine Gordimer, novelist, Nobel laureate (20 Nov 1923-2014).
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Fr. Ronald Knox: Single visible fellowship
“Anybody who has reached the point of looking round to find a single, visible fellowship of human beings which claims to be the one Church of Christ, has got to become a Catholic or give up his search in despair.” —Fr. Ronald Knox.
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G K Chesterton: Persecution of religion
“The persecution of religion by science has relatively, perhaps, only begun; but it is already at work, in we know not how many obscure cases of pedantry and cruelty. The mystics are very likely to be the martyrs when the psychologists become the kings.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Rationality and religion
“It is not merely that anything religious may be persecuted on the ground that it is not rational. It is also that anything irrational may be tolerated so long as it is also irreligious. It is only lunacy to assert religion; it is no longer lunacy to deny reason.” —G K Chesterton.
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Warren Buffett: In flux
“Usually if [companies] can gain competitive advantage very quickly, you have to worry about them losing it quickly, too…. When an industry is in flux, there are a lot of people that think they’re the survivors, or the ones that are going to prosper, where it turns out otherwise.” —Warren Buffett (2002).
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Robert F Kennedy: One-fifth
“One-fifth of the people are against everything all of the time.” —Robert F Kennedy.
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Will Rogers: People start thinking
“A king can stand people fighting but he can’t last long if people start thinking.” —Will Rogers, humorist (4 Nov 1879-1935).
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Simon Sinek: Clear sense
“When we have a clear sense of where we’re going, we are flexible in how we get there.” —Simon Sinek.
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Charles Dickens: Suffering
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.
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Holmes Rolston III: Destroying species
“Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.” —Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy (b. 19 Nov 1932).
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Victor Hugo: Laughter is the sun
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” —Victor Hugo.
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C S Lewis: Always some peace
“There is always some peace in having submitted to the right. Don’t spoil it by worrying about the results, if you can help it. It is not your business to succeed (no one can be sure of that) but to do right: when you have done so, the rest lies with God.” —C S Lewis.
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Carl Schurz: My country
“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.” — Carl Schurz.
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Eckhart Tolle: Inner transformation
“As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.” —Eckhart Tolle.
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Mikhail Lomonosov: Nature
“Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements of its innards. The external actions are strong winds, rains, river currents, sea waves, ice, forest fires, floods; there is only one internal force-earthquake.” —Mikhail Lomonosov.
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G K Chesterton: Absurd modern attempt
“I do not deny that women have been wronged and even tortured; but I doubt if they were ever tortured as much as they are tortured now by the absurd modern attempt to make them domestic empresses and competitive clerks at the same time.” —G K Chesterton.
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Aja Raden: More devastating
“Apparently the only thing more devastating to your brain than thinking you can’t have something is the knowledge that someone else can.” —Aja Raden.
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C S Lewis: Reward
“If you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Skeptics and skepticism
“It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favor of skepticism.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Fixed rule
“We must never forget one fact, which we tend to forget nevertheless: that a fixed rule is the only protection of ordinary humanity against clever men — who are the natural enemies of humanity.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Before there was a printing press
“Between newspaper stunts and newspaper suppressions on the one side, and dictatorships with their censorships on the other, it is highly probable that our immediate posterity will know less about what is going on than they did before there was a printing press.” —G K Chesterton.
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James Branch Cabell: Temptation resisted
“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.” —James Branch Cabell.
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G K Chesterton: Temptation
“Yielding to a temptation is like yielding to a blackmailer: you pay to be free, and find yourself the more enslaved.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Landslide
“All human institutions slide downwards like a landslide, unless they are perpetually forced upwards by criticism and reform.” —G K Chesterton.
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Simon Sinek: Better to disappoint
“It’s better to disappoint with the truth than appease with a lie.” —Simon Sinek.
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Soichiro Honda: Raise the sail with your stronger hand
“There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes ‘Raise the sail with your stronger hand’, meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.” —Soichiro Honda.
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James Humes: Auditioning for leadership
“Every time you speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” —James Humes.
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G K Chesterton: Real pessimist
“The real pessimist is not he who is weary of evil, but he who is weary of good.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Reactionary
“I may be a reactionary, but I am sure I am not a Conservative. I would react against a great many things in the past as well as the present. I’d test them not by a calendar which records whether they have happened, but by a creed which decides whether they ought to happen.” —G…
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G K Chesterton: Nescience
“It will not be Science that kills belief in a hundred years. It will be Nescience that kills it, without even looking at what it kills. It will be a sort of supreme stupidity, that boasts of having studied everything except the thing that it criticizes.” —G K Chesterton. Source: @GKCDaily
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G K Chesterton: Reason and religion
“Secularists talk as if the Church has introduced a sort of schism between reason and religion. The truth is the Church was actually the first thing that ever tried to combine reason and religion. There had never before been any such union between the priests and the philosophers.” —G K Chesterton.
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Tiberius Julius Caesar: Duty of a good shepherd
“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.” —Tiberius Julius Caesar.
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Simon Sinek: Leaders
“A weak leader likes to tell us how many people work for them. A great leader is humbled to tell us how many people they work for.” —Simon Sinek.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater: Bolder and milder
“He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.” —Johann Kaspar Lavater, poet, writer, philosopher (15 Nov 1741-1801).
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G K Chesterton: Talking to oneself
“If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.” —G K Chesterton.
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Christopher Dawson: Loss of faith in God
“The loss of faith in God is followed by the loss of universal moral principles and finally by the loss of all that binds man to man.” —Christopher Dawson.
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William Pitt the Elder: Can he talk nonsense?
“Don’t talk to me about a man’s being able to talk sense, everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?” —William Pitt the Elder.
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G K Chesterton: Devils and nachines
“Pride makes a man a devil; but lust makes him a machine.” —G K Chesterton.
