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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The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.