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
atheist men empires
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
atheist men logic
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.
atheist atheism argument
There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
atheist optimism miracle
Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.
atheist atheism not-interested
The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
atheist bigots
There is no bigot like the atheist.
christian atheist taste
It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.
atheist atheism negative
Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
wine water wife
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."
mean successful wealth
There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.
people doe honest
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.
rewards wealth prosperity
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
drinking beer animal
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
fun vision dull
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.