"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."Do you agree, or disagree? Why?
- G. K. Chesterton
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"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."Do you agree, or disagree? Why?
- G. K. Chesterton
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He also said, "Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits." (From Orthodoxy)
I definitely agree with him. Michael Polanyi said, "We know more than we can tell." He thought that many of the greatest scientific discoveries came from people who were first very passionate that they would find something (or even a certain something) before they found it. Nietzsche said that we can't see anything we haven't already seen. I think that Polanyi, Nietzsche, and Chesterton all speak to the same thing.
I believe "accept" would have been a more accurate word than "find" in that statement. We've all seen someone find truth, recognize it, then watched their brains reject it because they don't/can't/won't believe it.
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