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Quotation from Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
“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.”
Orthodoxy, Chapter II, The Maniac (Project Gutenberg #130)
Answering the idea that imagination breeds madness, Chesterton blames instead the attempt to comprehend everything by reasoning.
Citation: "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." — G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, Chapter II, The Maniac (Project Gutenberg #130). (id chesterton-orthodoxy-q3)
Portrait: Gilbert Chesterton, Ernest Herbert Mills, Public domain.
