G.K. Chesterton:
The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious. The mystic allows one thing to be mysterious, and everything else becomes lucid.
Similar point made by Pirsig about Quality. If you let there be a mystery premise, you can build from there. Back to Chesterton:
He puts the seed of dogma in a central darkness; but it branches forth in all directions with abounding natural health.
My dogmas in the center are the ones I use on the masthead above (at least of the time of this writing). I try to live by creation rather than consumption and giving rather than selling.
