A society which prefers perfected forms of error to a battered shape of the truth cannot survive.
With a link, if possible. Thank you.
2007-09-11 10:17:03 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
I found two references to G.K. Chesterton's alleged quote, although I have been unable to locate the original.
"McEwan, as Chesterton has it, chooses reality's battered truth over form's perfected error."
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020325&s=wood032502
"To paraphrase Chesterton, I would rather have a battered shape of truth than perfected forms of error."
Motes and Beams: A Further Response to White on the Upper Paleolithic
Paul G. Bahn
Current Anthropology, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Feb., 1990), pp. 71-76
This article consists of 6 page(s
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204(199002)31%3A1%3C71%3AMABAFR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
I found this one from page 23 of Chesterton's autobiography:
"Truth can understand error; but error cannot understand Truth."
retrieved from: http://books.google.com/books?id=zlL35Ri98i8C&pg=PA253&dq=truth+error+ARAMBURU+OR+chesterton&as_brr=3&sig=mxs4SZBPYLIR4zpY7KCp2ROqFmc
2007-09-11 12:10:30 · answer #1 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's likely a G.K Chesteron paraphrase. I'd try asking for a direct reference here:
http://www.chesterton.org/qmeister2/qmeister.htm
2007-09-11 17:48:42 · answer #2 · answered by clarence_da_sock_puppet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋