Mr. Meadow on Nostr: “Agnosticism is the ancient confession of ignorance” - GK Chesterton He goes on ...
“Agnosticism is the ancient confession of ignorance” - GK Chesterton
He goes on further to explain the self defeating perspective an agnostic adopts:
“Agnostics are not merely men who know that they know noth-ing. More often they are men who know that nobody else can ever know anything. That is a very different thing; and one of the most dogmatic of dogmas: a universal negative. Nevertheless, there is about such agnostics a real and often respectable ignorance. They really do not know how sectarian they are, or in other words, how small a section of human thought and experience they really present.”
He goes on further to explain the self defeating perspective an agnostic adopts:
“Agnostics are not merely men who know that they know noth-ing. More often they are men who know that nobody else can ever know anything. That is a very different thing; and one of the most dogmatic of dogmas: a universal negative. Nevertheless, there is about such agnostics a real and often respectable ignorance. They really do not know how sectarian they are, or in other words, how small a section of human thought and experience they really present.”