
journalist
Autor inglês e apologista cristão (1874–1936)
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Join the roomGilbert Keith Chesterton foi um escritor apologista cristão inglês. A sagacidade de Chesterton, seu estilo paradoxal e a defesa da tradição o tornaram uma figura dominante na literatura do início do século XX.
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.”
“Don't you believe people when they tell you that people sought for a sign, and believed in miracles because they were ignorant. They did it because they were wise, filthily, vilely wise—too wise to eat or sleep or put on their boots with patience.”
“A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.”
“Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.”
“The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all.”
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