Somebody hold me

[Gladius]

And it is his head that splits.

Yeah I remember reading about all those fucked up mathematicians and astronomers and physicists and shit man people getting so fucking blasted on science just running their lives into the ground and getting mad hate and going depressed and committing suicide and wait a minute

extreme scientism does that to people

[valiums]

tru

[rtil]

And it is his head that splits.

Yeah I remember reading about all those fucked up mathematicians and astronomers and physicists and shit man people getting so fucking blasted on science just running their lives into the ground and getting mad hate and going depressed and committing suicide and wait a minute

???

the point Chesterton was making was the absurdity of attempting to "fit" the cosmos into your head, to make the infinite finite. he wasn't talking about literal insanity, in fact he questions the notion of sanity in that very book and chapter. also Chesterton wrote this during the rise of scientific progressivism and modernism - before scientism was really a "thing" but could just as easily apply to today's militant neckbeard euphoric atheists.

simply spoken, all he's saying that using logic to remove all mystery from a universe that is observably impossibly larger than we can fathom is dangerous. his philosophy preferred a much more imaginative approach. he was also deeply religious but i don't think you have to be to agree that hard logic and human reasoning is the answer to everything.

even for a non-theist, the book this quote comes from (Orthodoxy) is a great read. he was a brilliant, funny and charismatic writer.