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
thank-you gratitude appreciation
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
dream men existence
The center of every man's existence is a dream.
simple men expression
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about on two legs, therefore he never walks about except to buy shoes and stockings.
art lines might
A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
passion important details
Passion makes every detail important.
funny math statistics
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
kings memories strange
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
real men greatness
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
beauty broken-heart beautiful
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
dirty self circles
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
christian wisdom religious
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
life time hate
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
funny life presence-of-mind
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
ignorance two scripture
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as were 17th-century sectarians to jump to the conclusion that any guess about Scripture was the obvious explanation . . . . and this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.