“Prodigy of Imbecility”

“We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.” – GK Chesterton

“One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just ittered something stupendously direct ant important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.” – GK Chesterton

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