"If there is no design existing beforehand, and no goal existing already, how are we to know whether any entirely new thing is a good thing or not? All attempted answers to this question are evasions of the question. We may say that man must judge by his best moral standards; but that is to admit that there are standards by which we can judge the standards. We may say that he must follow where the best light leads him; but that is to admit that there is a difference between light and darkness which cannot change."
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at the risk of sounding stupid, who is this guy?
The Catholic version of C.S. Lewis ... only a little older. In an earlier post I promised some quotes from Chesterton, Stiller movies, and the Bible. Best known for his books: "Orthodoxy," "The Everlasting Man," and a couple of biographies of old famous Catholic big-wigs. He was a philosopher, journalist, theologian, and fat.
"Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men."
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