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
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
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A yawn is a silent shout.
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.