Chesterton Friendship Quotes & Sayings

And when he became conscious of a human figure dark against the silver stream, sitting on a large boulder and looking rather like a large bird, it was perhaps with some of the premonitions proper to a man who meets the strangest friendship of his life. — G.K. Chesterton

I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it. — Richard C. Armitage

When man penetrates the mysteries of Nature, the "facts of Nature" become transparent symbols, revealing the "divine energies" and the "angelic" state which fallen man has lost, and which he may recover only for a moment, as when he is enraptured by the beauty of music or of a lovely face. At such moments man forgets his limited self, his individualistic dream, and participates in the cosmic dream, thus becoming freed from the prison of his own carnal soul. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You — Angelica Hopes

If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education. — Michael Dell

A queer and almost mad notion seems to have got into the modern head that, if you mix up everybody and everything more or less anyhow, the mixture may be called unity, and the unity may be called peace. It is supposed that, if you break down all doors and walls so that there is no domesticity, there will then be nothing but friendship. Surely somebody must have noticed by this time that the men living in a hotel quarrel at least as often as the men living in a street. — G.K. Chesterton

There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva). — Immanuel Kant

I offer it to you because there exists not only comradeship, but a very different thing, called friendship; an agreement under all the arguments and a thread which, please God, will never break. — G.K. Chesterton

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have a suspicion that you are all mad,' said Dr. Renard, smiling sociably; 'but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship. — G.K. Chesterton

The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind. — Samantha Morton

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love too much. — Sarah Swainson