# G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, conhecido como G. K. Chesterton (29 de maio de 1874, Campden Hill, Kensington, Londres, Inglaterra – 14 de junho de 1936) foi um escritor britânico.
       - The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types — the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.
          - The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 33, Página 313, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Ignatius Press, 1990, ISBN 0898702747 - 697 páginas.
    No primeiro caso, a estrada está aberta e eu sigo por ela até onde eu desejar; no segundo caso, a estrada está fechada."
       - Spiritual doctrines do not actually limit the mind as do materialistic denials. Even if I believe in immortality I need not think about it. But if I disbelieve in immortality I must not think about it. In the first case the road is open and I can go as far as I like; in the second the road is shut.
          - Orthodoxy - página 42, Gilbert Keith Chesterton - John Lane Company, 1909 - 287 páginas
       - It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
          - Orthodoxy - página 58, Gilbert Keith Chesterton - John Lane Company, 1909 - 287 páginas
       - The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
          - What's wrong with the world - página 48, Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Dodd, Mead and company, 1910 - 367 páginas
       - or enforce psychoanalysis — that is, enforce confession without absolution.
          - What I saw in America - página 175, Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Hodder and Stoughton, 1922 - 308 páginas
       - Poets do not go mad; but chess- players do.
          - Orthodoxy - página 27, Gilbert Keith Chesterton - John Lane Company, 1909 - 287 páginas
       - A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
          - All things considered - página 259, Gilbert Keith Chesterton - J. Lane company, 1910 - 295 páginas
       - Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
          - Orthodoxy - página 85, Gilbert Keith Chesterton - John Lane Company, 1909 - 287 páginas
       - Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
          - Heretics - página 296, Gilbert Keith Chesterton - John Lane, 1905 - 305 páginas
       - Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
          - The quotable Chesterton: a topical compilation of the wit, wisdom ... - página 97, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, George J. Marlin ... - Ignatius Press, 1986, ISBN 0898701023, 9780898701029 - 391 páginas
       - Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
          - The collected works of G.K. Chesterton - página 362, Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Ignatius Press, 1990, ISBN 0898702747, 9780898702743 - 697 páginas
       - The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies ; probably because they are generally the same people.
          - "The uses of diversity" - página 35, Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920 - 191 páginas
       - Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die
          - A Chesterton calendar: Comp. from the writings of G. K. C. Both in verse & in prose. With a section apart for the moveable feasts, Gilbert Keith Chesterton - K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co.,1911 - 421 páginas
       - O Homem Que Foi Quinta-Feira (página pendente).
       - Citado em: AHLQUIST, Dale. The universe according to G.K. Chesterton: a dictionary of the mad, mundane and methaphysical, Mineola, NY: Dover, p. 64, 2011.
       - Citado em: AHLQUIST, Dale. The universe according to G.K. Chesterton: a dictionary of the mad, mundane and methaphysical, Mineola, NY: Dover, p. 64, 2011.

## Atribuídas

* "Amor sigifica amar o não amável, senão ele não é uma virtude, afinal."
       - Loving means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all;
          - Citado em "The Prairie Schooner" - Volume 39, página 213, 1965
* "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."
       - Citado em "Três alqueires e uma vaca: Capa com desenho de G. K. Chesterton" - página 95, Gustavo Corção, Livraria AGIR, 1946, 318 páginas
* "Existe um caminho que vai dos olhos ao coração sem passar pelo intelecto."
    -Revista CARAS, Edição 667.
* "Há grandes homens que fazem com que todos se sintam pequenos. Mas o verdadeiro grande homem é aquele que faz com que todos se sintam grandes."
    -Revista CARAS, Edição de 21 de Setembro de 2006
* A única lei da História é o imprevisto.
    -G. K. Chesterton, escritor britânico; citado em "A formação do federalismo no Brasil" - página 36, João Camilo de Oliveira Torres - Companhia Editora Nacional, 1961 - 381 páginas.