"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

Old, Philosophy, Practice, Praise

14

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

Exlpore more Old quotes

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Old,

"We owned a bearded collie for many years. Sophie. She was old, and she died last year."

Erika Slezak, American Actress

Old, Years

"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Old,

"There's the young Jon Voight and the old Jon Voight."

Jon Voight, American Actor

Old,

"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Old,

"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist

Old, Pity

"That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen."

Michael Harrington, American Writer

Old, Poor, Reform, Rhetoric

"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."

Joshua Chamberlain, American Soldier

Old, Stars

"To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better."

Bill Budge, American Businessman

Old,

"I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories."

Daniel Clowes, American Author

Old, Trying, Words, Years

Explore more quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Man

"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."

Happiness

"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."

Love

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

Love

"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

Experience

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Man

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

Life

"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."

Religion

"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

Creation

"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."

Knowledge