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The vulgarisation of modern life has come from the governing class; from the highly educated class.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
“So, what can be done, if anything? Not much. The Church must pass through this trial that will shake the belief of many, and even if this is not the final apostasy prophesied in the Catehchism, it is certainly a Western apostasy.”
Electric information environments being utterly ethereal fosters the illusion of the world as a spiritual substance. It is now a reasonable facsimile of the mystical body, a blatant manifestation of the Anti-Christ.[7]
(Marshall McLuhan)
Gene Wolfe, exodus from the long sun
I found it was their daily taunt against Christianity that it was the light of one people and had left all others to die in the dark. But I also found that it was their special boast for themselves that science and progress were the discovery of one people, and that all other peoples had died in the dark.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
They never fell into the habit of the idle revolutionists of supposing that the past was bad because the future was good, which amounted to asserting that because humanity had never made anything but mistakes it was now quite certain to be right.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
All the will-worshippers, from Nietzsche to Mr. Davidson, are really quite empty of volition. They cannot will, they can hardly wish. And if any one wants a proof of this, it can be found quite easily. It can be found in this fact: that they always talk of will as something that expands and breaks out. But it is quite the opposite. Every act of
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
every act of will is an act of self-limitation — just as a painter chooses the frame, the borders, the subject
To sum up our contention so far, we may say that the most characteristic current philosophies have not only a touch of mania, but a touch of suicidal mania. The mere questioner has knocked his head against the limits of human thought; and cracked it.