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
mean thinking connected
Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.
realizing modernity
The moderns do not realize modernity.
believe people tolerance
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
running baby wine
Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
mean home ifs
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
clever next tasks
We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.
house void rooms
Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.
men thinking vision
The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
thinking temptation ifs
If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.
real mean talking
If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
drinking people driving
People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
men language modern
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
men dust disease
If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.
fall brain want
You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!