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
judging mind might
And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
citizens institutions horrible
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
voice christ weak
Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.
men birth tradition
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
believe opportunity giving
Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.
atheism theological
Atheism is too theological.
suicide heaven earth
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
writing long waiting
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
bible heaven jesus-christ
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
plato greek bernard-shaw
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.
opposites interesting illuminating
When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.
race always-trying dodge
The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
believe people tolerance
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
government aristocracy educated
Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.