It might strike people as odd, though, that most or at least half of those quotes come from books arguing for Catholicism. (They’re really good! Can LessWrong start a Chesterton-is-awesome meme maybe?)
Whether Chesterton gets a positive meme or not, he remains awesome!
He had a singular talent for focusing a blazing spotlight on various kinds of intellectual foolishness.
More remarkably, for someone of such immense literary and intellectual accomplishment, he had an unshakable faith in the good sense of the “average man”.
I looked at the Chesterton quotes, they are all very rational, no discrepancy here. Here are the top ones:
Statistics
Education
Reality
No
Reform
Mind
Stopping thought
It might strike people as odd, though, that most or at least half of those quotes come from books arguing for Catholicism. (They’re really good! Can LessWrong start a Chesterton-is-awesome meme maybe?)
Whether Chesterton gets a positive meme or not, he remains awesome! He had a singular talent for focusing a blazing spotlight on various kinds of intellectual foolishness. More remarkably, for someone of such immense literary and intellectual accomplishment, he had an unshakable faith in the good sense of the “average man”.