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Quote/s of the Day – 18 April – Wednesday of the Third Week of Eastertide

Speaking of: Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)           A Beginning ……

English Catholic Convert, writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the “prince of paradox”

“A dead thing can go with the stream
but only a living thing can go against it.”
The Everlasting Man, 1925

“Progress should mean,
that we are always
changing the world
to fit the vision,
instead, we are always
changing the vision.”
Orthodoxy, 1908

“Men invent new ideals
because, they dare not
attempt old ideals.
They look forward,
with enthusiasm,
because, they are afraid
to look back.”
What’s Wrong With The World, 1910

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies
because they become fashions.”
Illustrated London News, 19 April 1930

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)