G. K. Chesterton Quote

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.


A G.K. Chesterton anthology (ed. Ignatius Pr, 1985)


We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain...

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain...

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain...

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain...