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
school support moral
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
faith moral sanity
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
christian religion morality
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
orthodoxy morality action
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
mean morality justified
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
moral modern strengthening
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
issues principles moral
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
christian hatred morality
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
morality states forbidden
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
home imagination morality
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
benefits morality rich
Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.
desire morality desirable
There are some desires that are not desirable.
choices soul morality
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
believe sacred morality
Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.