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
inspirational earth persons
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
inspirational life travel
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
graduation hope carpe-diem
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
inspirational education book
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
teacher retirement teaching
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
puritan righteous persons
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
funny respect humor
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
time live-life inspiration
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
inspirational happiness rain
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
freedom democracies-have order
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
inspirational perfectionism not-perfect
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
brain movement apes
Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?
men animal broken
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
mean political politician
Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.