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150-Year-Old Chesterton on the Main Paradox of Knowledge

150-Year-Old Chesterton on the Main Paradox of Knowledge

There must be this happy tension between knowing and not knowing for knowledge to work.

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As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the “prince of paradox,” I will repost an older post on the main enigma of knowledge — according to G.K. Chesterton.

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