A blog dedicated to providing quotes by and posts relating to one of the most influential (and quotable!) authors of the twentieth century, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936). If you do not know much about GKC, I suggest visiting the webpage of the American Chesterton Society as well as this wonderful Chesterton Facebook Page by a fellow Chestertonian

I also have created a list detailing examples of the influence of Chesterton if you are interested, that I work on from time to time.

(Moreover, for a list of short GKC quotes, I have created one here, citing the sources)

"...Stevenson had found that the secret of life lies in laughter and humility."

-Heretics (1905)
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

"The smaller our faith in doctrine, the larger is our faith in doctors."

It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to children. The smaller our faith in doctrine, the larger is our faith in doctors.

-January 26, 1907, Illustrated London News

2 comments:

coffeepotcurve said...

I guess I had not thought about it but yeah that is often the case.Or at least it seems to be.

Mike said...

Yes. Modern thought is full of such contradictions, it seems...