Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
Weitere Zitate von G.K. Chesterton
Zum Autor"Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified."
"Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination."
"A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as it were, independent. He can only be saved by will or faith. The moment his mere reason moves, it moves in the old circular rut; he will go round and round his logical circle."
"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."
"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."