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
fashion atheist catholic
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
atheist believe doctors
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
god atheist christian-inspirational
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
gratitude atheist worst-moments
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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.
atheist manage
Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.
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.