Who is Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Of his writing style, Time observed: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have ...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems

• To F. C. In Memoriam Palestine, '19
  Do you remember one immortal
  Lost moment out of time and space,
  What time we thought, who passed the portal
  Of that divine disastrous place ...
• The Trinkets
  A wandering world of rivers,
  A wavering world of trees,
  If the world grow dim and dizzy
  With all changes and degrees, ...
• Fantasia
  The happy men that lose their heads
  They find their heads in heaven,
  As cherub heads with cherub wings,
  And cherub haloes even: ...
• Another Tattered Rhymster In The Ring
  Another tattered rhymster in the ring,
  With but the old plea to the sneering schools,
  That on him too, some secret night in spring
  Came the old frenzy of a hundred fools ...
• Memory
  If I ever go back to Baltimore,
  The city of Maryland,
  I shall miss again as I missed before
  A thousand things of the world in store, ...

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

• Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
• We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
• Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
• People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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Comments about Gilbert Keith Chesterton

• 3stoneentertain: you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. ~gilbert keith chesterton
• 3stoneentertain: you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. ~gilbert keith chesterton
• 3stoneentertain: you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. ~gilbert keith chesterton
• 3stoneentertain: you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. ~gilbert keith chesterton
• 3stoneentertain: you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. ~gilbert keith chesterton

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