“Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You begin to see the point? Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But why anything comes to be there at all, and whether there is anything behind the things science observes—something of a different… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“science applied to social problems and backed by the whole force of the state,” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the ‘wisdom’ of earlier ages. For the wise men… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The new oligarchy must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists until in the end the politicians become merely the scientists’ puppets.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Man’s conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At schools, the children who are too stupid or lazy to learn languages, mathematics and elementary science can be set to doing… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Science works by experiments. It watches how things behave. Every scientific statement in the long run, however complicated it looks, really means… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already... begun to be warped, had been subtly manoeuvred in a certain direction.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
