"In this example, which I have taken merely because it is an example, it will be noted that I do not say that the nightmare seen by the first man of the forest is either more true or more wonderful than the normal mare of the stable seen by the civilised person who can appreciate what is normal. Of the two extremes, I think on the whole that the traditional grasp of truth is the better. But I say that the truth is found at one or other of these two extremes, and is lost in the intermediate condition of mere fatigue and forgetfulness of tradition. In other words, I say it is better to see a horse as a monster than to see it only as a slow substitute for a motor-car. If we have got into that state of mind about a horse as something stale, it is far better to be frightened of a horse because it is a good deal too fresh."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Everlasting_Man
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
The Everlasting Man
131 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by The Everlasting Man →
Related Quotes
"The point of this book, in other words, is that the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be reall…"
"When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her childr…"
"Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to be far enough aw…"
"It is exactly when the boy gets far enough off to see the giant that he sees that he really is a giant. It is exactly…"
"But the Church, being a highly practical thing for working and fighting, is necessarily a thing for men and not merel…"
"George Wyndham once told me that he had seen one of the first aeroplanes rise for the first time and it was very wond…"
"Out of some dark forest under some ancient dawn there must come towards us, with lumbering yet dancing motions, one o…"
"I say it is better to see a horse as a monster than to see it only as a slow substitute for a motor-car. If we have g…"
"Now, as it is with the monster that is called a horse, so it is with the monster that is called a man. … the really d…"
"There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk 'round the whole world til…"