A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

All profound truth, philosophical and spiritual, makes game with appearances, yet without really contradicting common sense. That is why Mr. Chesterton accuses the Victorians of believing in real paradoxes, such as expecting all men to have the same morals when they have different religions, or supposing that it was practical to be illogical.
“G. K. Chesterton: A Practical Mystic” (1936), in The Medium and the Light (1999), p 5
Year: 1936
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