Sunday, March 4, 2012

Quote of the Day (G.K. Chesterton, on Truth, Doubt and Dogma)


“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates them; gives them their limits and their plain and defiant shape…. We who are Christians never knew the great philosophic common sense which inheres in that mystery until the anti-Christian writers pointed it out to us. The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed.”—G.K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)

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