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Quotation from Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
“I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.”
Orthodoxy, Chapter I, Introduction in Defence of Everything Else (Project Gutenberg #130)
The yachtsman parable applied to himself: his private philosophy turned out to be the old creed.
Citation: "I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy." — G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Chapter I, Introduction in Defence of Everything Else (Project Gutenberg #130). (id chesterton-orthodoxy-q1)
Portrait: Gilbert Chesterton, Ernest Herbert Mills, Public domain.
