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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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
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Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.