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
acceptance humanity kinship
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
intelligent sections seems
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
giving-up dont-give-up instant
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
justice education-for-all chiefs
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
atheist world doe
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?
atheist believe men
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
adventure home wild-places
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
average way agnostic
The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.
discipline materialism old-fashioned
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
giving bees skeptic
The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.
liberty objects
The only object of liberty is life.
friendship expression imperfection
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
friendship father hate
These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.
friendship men soul
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.