We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sens…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.38, Simon and Schuster
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