Wednesday 30 December 2020

Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Tremendous Trifles

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

(The Secret of a Train)

 

The everyday problem of finding out the right balance between having deep enough knowledge of a few things and a broad enough general knowledge of things only known superficially. Because this world is so immense one always has to make sacrifices in one direction or the other - or, indeed, in both.





 

 

 

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