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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer And Christian Apologist

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Gilbert K. Chesterton is a Writer and Christian apologist, best known for The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare.

Quick Facts About Gilbert K. Chesterton

Profession: Writer And Christian Apologist
Notable works: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Known for: Wit, paradoxical style, and defense of tradition

About Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer known for his work as a Christian apologist. His sharp humor, fondness for paradox, and spirited defense of tradition established him as one of the commanding literary figures of the early twentieth century. Among his works is The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton · Page 8

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children…

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Children

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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the…

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Care

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Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

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Knows

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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

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Suicide

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While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the…

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Audience

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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

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Expensive

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We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends…

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Divine

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For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions -…

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Art

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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

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Joy

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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

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Abyss

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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Country

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there…

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Active

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The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community…

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Chosen

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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

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America

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In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was…

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Driven

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No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

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Alcohol

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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of…

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Age

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Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things…

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Books

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“The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is difficult to do without destroying the…

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Body

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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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Brave

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There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

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Angle

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The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.…

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Artistic

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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,…

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Abstract

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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

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Architecture

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A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives…

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Big things

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