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
believe doubt modern
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.
responsibility roots modern
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
misunderstood modern used
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
confusion may modern
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
discovery vastness modern-life
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
two kind modern
There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
realizing modernity
The moderns do not realize modernity.
men language modern
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
people losing modern
The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.
modern accepting authority
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
silence modern tyranny
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
simplicity world modern
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
moral modern strengthening
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
action believe falls however men unless
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.