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- We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is…
- Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any…
- You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while…
- Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When…
- Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is…
- We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.
- Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age…
- God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and…
- People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on…
- If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you…
- There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with…
- In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God…
- Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they…
- There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
- Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when…
- You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see…
- But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at…
- The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by…
- The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those…
- He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into…
- If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is…
- Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis:…
- But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more…
- Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get…
- That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster