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G.K. Chesterton

“The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed of thinking a thing funny because it is foreign; the second is that he should be ashamed of thinking it wrong because it is funny. The reaction of his senses and superficial habits of mind against something new, and to him abnormal, is a perfectly healthy reaction. But the mind which imagines that mere unfamiliarity can possibly prove anything about inferiority is a very inadequate mind.”

G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America
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What I Saw in America (Anthem Travel Classics) What I Saw in America by G.K. Chesterton
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