G.K. Chesterton Quotes

The Curse That Came Before History Has Laid On Us All A Tendency To Be Weary Of Wonders. If We Saw The Sun For The First Time It Would Be The Most Fearful And Beautiful Of Meteors. Now That We See It For The Hundredth Time We Call It, In The Hideous And Blasphemous Phrase Of Wordsworth, "the Light Of Common Day." We Are Inclined To Increase Our Claims. We Are Inclined To Demand Six Suns, To Demand A Blue Sun, To Demand A Green Sun. Humility Is Perpetually Putting Us Back In The Primal Darkness. There All Light Is Lightning, Startling And Instantaneous. Until We Understand That Original Dark, In Which We Have Neither Sight Nor Expectation, We Can Give No Hearty And Childlike Praise To The Splendid Sensationalism Of Things.

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