This chapter (The Maniac) would have been very helpful to me while I was still in graduate school. Chesterton explains that modern intellectual theories are deficient in that they seek to explain everything, while still leaving so much out."A sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman(19)."
"The ordinary man had always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic...He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and the contradiction to go along with them (23)."
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