Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 May 1874
hate if-there-is-a-god christian-inspirational
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
men important ordinary
It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
responsibility roots modern
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
fashion atheist catholic
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
morning night up-early
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
free-love contradiction term
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
real men community
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.
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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
steps stories certain
With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
lying math science
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
mad people wicked
There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.
complaining married born
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
peace men nuts
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.