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
divorce people reason
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.
love beautiful girl
The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
sex animal men
Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
dog drinking men
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
racism people conviction
The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.
love beautiful music-love
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
relationship uncles men
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
education people purpose
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
philosophy fall mean
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man, they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now they talk about the survival of the fittest: they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean.
christian christian-inspirational would-be
How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it...
christian moving church
We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
teaching personality soul
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.
believe men world
The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.
rights long people
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.