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
discovery vastness modern-life
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
two kind modern
There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
mother progress problem
Progress is the mother of all problems.
enemy lists lasts
[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
children opposites laughing
Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
men simplicity complexity
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
men might know-how
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be...
evil age may
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
duality
I am at one with my duality.
pay one-woman
Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
light looks one-thing
The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.
kind conviction huge
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
eggs flying connections
There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
heart men brain
Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain