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
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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
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The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.
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The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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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.
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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.