The human brain is a machine for coming to conclusions; if it cannot come to conclusions it is rusty. When we hear of a man too clever to believe,... it is like hearing of a nail that was too good to hold down a carpet; or a bolt that was too strong to keep a door shut... Man can be defined as an animal that makes dogmas. As he piles doctrine on doctrine and conclusion on conclusion in the formation of some...philosophy or religion, he is ....becoming more and more human. When he drops one doctrine after another in a refined scepticism, when he declines to tie himself to a system, when he says that he has outgrown definitions... holding no form of creed but contemplating all, then he is by that very process sinking slowly backwards into the vagueness of the vagrant animals and the unconsciousness of the grass¹ . Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded. HereticsGK Chesterton is too good to go unshared. FReegards!
¹ tulips! :-)
Absolutely. I'll have to read Heretics.