Against the common notion that insanity is a departure from reason that comes from a fanciful or overly active imagination, Chesterton argues that it is the inability to get out of the constraints of reason that drive people insane. The culmination of his argument is expressed when he says, “The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.” Chesterton’s concept of sanity is related to a kind of humility that results in a buoyancy of being. Allegorically one can lay a hold of Chesterton’s idea by thinking about a surfer whose desire is to ride a wave, as opposed to the desire that someone might have to capture and control a wave. The surfer uses the power of the wave not by seeking to control it, but rather by learning to float on it and thereby enter into a relationship with the wave where it carries him even as he moves freely upon it. So it is in life that one can seek to control all the realities and forces they might encounter, particularly by analyzing them and thereby try to gain a mastery of understanding, or they can seek enough of an understanding to function gracefully amidst all these forces many of which are beyond the limits of human understanding. It is this latter approach that embodies grace, beauty and true power, in short, that demonstrates true sanity.