‘‘It is a monotonous memory which keeps us in the main from seeing things as splendid as they are.’”
G.K. Chesterton quoted by James V. Schall, SJ in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 # 8 (July-August 1999)
Edmund Wilson’s search for “ultimate meaning in the things of this world... quite often fooled him into thinking that the search for transcendent sensuality can be other than vain.”
Terry Teachout in National Review August 9, 1993
“Mysteries are like the sun, dazzling, yet plain to all eyes.”
John Donne "in his third satire" quoted by George Watson in Chronicles magazine September 1991
In BOE Report I ask why people who dismiss the Pope when he expounds Catholic doctrine are all ears when he recites dogma about climate change.
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
Ludwig Wittgenstein on BrainyQuote (https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ludwig_wittgenstein_103576)
“And if any other document is henceforth produced which was made heretofore and which in any kind of way seems to gainsay what is here established, that document shall be cast to mice to gnaw or into the fire to be burned, and he who produces it, whatever his rank, shall be regarded as the sweepings of ashes and confounded with the most ignominious shame and with one accord shunned by all the men who are nearby.”
King Canute, to the monks of Canterbury as part of “The Endowment of a Monastery, 1023” in William L. Sachse English History in the Making
“Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.”
G.K. Chesterton, “On Experience,” in All Is Grist, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #3 (Dec. 2000)