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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), 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."

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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Man, Mean, Men, Stronger, Struggle, Tragedy

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Generally, Habit, Habits, Selfish, Unselfish

Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

Children, Gift, Grateful, Miraculous, Present, Sweet

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Argue, Atheism, Fear, People, Quarrel

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. . . . It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.

Exactitude, Lying, Real, Reasonable, Waiting, Wilderness

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

Block, Car, Modern, Racing, Standstill, Traffic

Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

Declined, Idiotic, Offers, Said

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap. . . When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

Adventure, Family, Law, Step, Steps, Strange

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

Thank You, Appreciation, Gratitude, Thanks, Highest, Thought

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Person, Persons, Pours, Puritan, Righteous

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

Equally, Men, Miraculous, Science, Water

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

Become, Good, Idea, Law, Men, Real

White. . . is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. . . God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Color White, Definite, Fierce, Flower, Shining, White

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

Enjoy, Humility, Impossible, Pride

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Gun, Imagination, Impulse, Make, Men, Power

What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.

Chose, Doubt, Long, Waiting, Writing

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

Become, Champion, Evil, Men, Slave, Unless

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

Crazy, Economic, Indestructible, Thing, Value

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

Artist, Keeping, Lies, Lying, World

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Common Sense, Decay, Faith, Inspiration, Transitional, Uncommon

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