“THE terrible danger at the heart of our Society is that the tests are giving way. We are altering, not the evils, but the standard of good which is the only standard by which any evil can be detected and defined.”
~G.K. Chesterton: Illustrated London News, 3/25/11.
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"If the standard changes"
"IF THE standard changes, how can there be improvement, which implies a standard? Nietzsche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them. How can you overtake Jones if you walk in the other direction? You cannot discuss whether one people has succeeded more in being miserable than another succeeded in being happy. It would be like discussing whether Milton was more puritanical than a pig is fat.”
~G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, III: 'The Suicide of Thought'.
~G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, III: 'The Suicide of Thought'.
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