“There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.”
More from G.K. Chesterton on Philosophy
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
“Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained.”
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
“I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.”
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
“Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.”
“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
“There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”