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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I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
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The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .
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All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable....
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".
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It is a strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, have actually spent some hours in speculating upon the precise location of the Garden of Eden. Most probably we are in Eden still. It is only our eyes that have changed.
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Coincidence is a spiritual pun.
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When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.
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It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.