“You do believe everything. We all believe everything, even when we deny everything. The denyers believe. The unbelievers believe. Don”
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G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English Christian apologist writer. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature.
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culture · English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936) · journalist · poet · novelist · autobiographer · writer · screenwriter · philosopher · biographer · illustrator · crime fiction writer · also G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Gilbert Chesterton, G.K. Chesterton, G. K. C.
Born 29 May 1874 · Died 14 June 1936 · Q183167
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2026· 7 entries
“It is not only openly said, it is eagerly urged that the aim of the measure is to prevent any person whom these propagandists do not happen to think intelligent from having any wife or children.”
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“the curse of race religion is that it makes each separate man the sacred image which he worships. His own bones are the sacred relics; his own blood is the blood of St. Januarius”
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“s book God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy; A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas. Common sense Chesterton has been called”
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Public attention spiked: 5,709 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.6× the usual 1,237, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “100 Classic One-Liners from G. K. Chesterton” (CultureWatch).
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CultureWatch: 100 Classic One-Liners from G. K. Chesterton
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Public attention spiked: 3,748 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3× the usual 1,237, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 1 entry
America Magazine: Why G.K. Chesterton and his wife loved Christmas so much
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2023· 1 entry
The next Bishop of Northampton, David Oakley, agreed to preach at a Mass during a Chesterton pilgrimage in England (the route goes through London and Beaconsfield, which are both connected to his life)
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2022· 1 entry
A three-volume bibliography of Chesterton was published, listing 9,000 contributions he made to newspapers, magazines, and journals, as well as 200 books and 3,000 articles about him
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2012· 2 entries
A crater on the planet Mercury was named Chesterton after the author
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Had opened a preliminary investigation into possibly launching a cause for beatification and then canonization (for possible sainthood), but eventually decided not to open the cause
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2008· 1 entry
A Catholic high school, Chesterton Academy, opened in the Minneapolis area
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1996· 1 entry
Dale Ahlquist founded the American Chesterton Society to explore and promote Chesterton's writings
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1974· 1 entry
Ian Boyd, founded The Chesterton Review, a scholarly journal devoted to Chesterton and his circle
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1936· 15 entries
Died 1936-06-14.
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“Inne tłumaczenie: Sposobem na kochanie czegokolwiek jest wyobrażenie sobie, że moglibyśmy to utracić.”
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“Muzułmanie nie rozciągają etyki na kwestie takie jak granice czy ligitymizacja władzy. Dobry władca muzułmański był człowiekiem surowej wiary, dzielnym w boju i sprawiedliwie rozsądzającym swój lud, ale w sferze prawa międzynarodowego nie miał najmniejszych obiekcji przeciw usuwaniu znaków granicznych sąsiada.”
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“Prawdziwi wrogowie Anglii byli zawsze wrogami Polski; lecz Polska ucierpiała dużo mocniej w tej samej bitwie, z tego prostego powodu, że przypadkiem leży na wschodzie, na samej linii frontu.”
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“Zmienność jest jedną z zalet kobiety. Dzięki temu unikamy prymitywizmu poligamii. Ktoś, kto ma jedną porządną żonę, może być pewien, że ma duchowy harem.”
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“Człowiek został stworzony, by wątpić w siebie, ale nie w prawdę; ten porządek rzeczy został dziś postawiony na głowie. Człowiek domaga się uznania dla tej części siebie, dla której nie powinien się spodziewać poklasku – a mianowicie własnego ja. Wątpi natomiast w tą część, w którą wątpić nigdy nie powinien – czyli w Boski Rozum.”
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“Wszyscy demokraci sprzeciwiają się dyskwalifikowaniu ludzi z powodu ich urodzenia; tradycja sprzeciwia się dyskwalifikowaniu ludzi z powodu ich śmierci.”
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“Narzekanie, że wolno mi się tylko raz ożenić, przypominało według mnie narzekanie, że wolno mi się było tylko raz urodzić.”
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“Loving means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all;”
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“O poeta procura apenas a exaltação e a expansão, isto é, procura um mundo onde se possa distender. Pretende ele, simplesmente, enfiar a cabeça nos céus, ao passo que o lógico se esforça por enfiar os céus na cabeça. E é a cabeça que estala.”
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“Im więcej zastanawiałem się nad chrześcijaństwem, tym bardziej odkrywałem, że nie tylko ustanawia ono pewien ład, ale czyni to głównie po to, by móc wypuścić na wolność wszystko, co dobre.”
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“Człowiek dziewiętnastego wieku nie wierzył w Zmartwychwstanie nie dlatego, że liberalne chrześcijaństwo pozwalało mu na takie wątpliwości, ale dlatego, ponieważ surowy materializm mu na to nie pozwalał.”
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“Głównym obiektem zainteresowania całego chrześcijaństwa jest człowiek stojący na rozdrożu. Natomiast rozległe, płytkie filozofie – wielkie syntezy bredni – zawsze traktują o epokach, ewolucji i ostatecznych rozwiązaniach.”
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“(…) chrześcijaństwo nie tylko nie należało do ciemnych wieków średniowiecza, ale stanowiło jedyny ich jasny element. Chrześcijaństwo było świetlistym mostem łączącym ze sobą dwie przejrzyste cywilizacje.”
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“Człowiek utrzymujący stały kontakt z żywym Kościołem przypomina człowieka oczekującego każdego ranka na spotkanie przy swoim stole Platona i Shakespeare’a.”
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1931· 1 entry
The BBC invited Chesterton to give a series of radio talks
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1930· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1930–1936).
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1928· 2 entries
Following the death of former Liberal Prime Minister H
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And 1931 respectively and praised Scottish Catholics as "patriots" in contrast to Anglophile Protestants such as John Knox
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1922· 2 entries
“On Household Gods and Goblins”
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Chesterton joined Belloc in the Catholic faith, and both voiced criticisms of capitalism and socialism
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1920· 1 entry
“is a foreigner far more remote from us than is a Bavarian from a Frenchman; he is divided by the same type of division as that between us and a Chinaman or a Hindoo. He not only is not, but never was, of the same race”
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1917· 1 entry
Issues of New Witness shed light on these writers' moral concerns about the way the war was being fought on the home front, by commentary on "the 'Gordon Scandal'", the undercover agent alias "Alex Gordon"
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1911· 1 entry
“The Ballad of the White Horse”
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1908· 1 entry
“s journal The New Age in 1908, he declared”
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1905· 2 entries
“On what else is the whole world run but immediate impressions? What is more practical? My friend, the philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.”
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“s first published collection of poetry, Biography for Beginners (1905), which popularised the clerihew form. He opened his novel The Man Who Was Thursday with a poem written to Bentley. He also became godfather to Bentley”
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1902· 1 entry
The Daily News gave him a weekly opinion column, followed in 1905 by a weekly column in The Illustrated London News, for which he continued to write for the next 30 years
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1874· 2 entries
Born 1874-05-29.
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“s alleged reply, in his autobiography. In 1931, the BBC invited Chesterton to give a series of radio talks. He accepted, tentatively at first. He was allowed (and encouraged) to improvise on the scripts. This allowed his talks to maintain an intimate character, as did the decision to allow his wife and secretary to sit with him during his broadcasts. The talks were very popular. A BBC official remarked, after Chesterton”
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