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
filled-up acting next
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
life happiness smart
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
lying bed made
'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.
inspirational inspiring loyalty
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
inspirational motivational success
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
men doe contrary
The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.
fashion tradition
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
fiction facts nineteenth-century
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
people wit wells
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
running wine rivers
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
law criminals problem
From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.
lying tired blessing
Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.
problem ifs solutions
You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
philosophy telephones
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.