The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.
C.S. Lewis Quotes
I believe a man is happier, and happy in a richer way, if he has ‘the freeborn mind.’ But I doubt whether he can have this without economic independence, which the new society is abolishing. For economic independence allows an education not controlled by Government; and in adult life it is the man who needs, […]
Your Hindus certainly sound delightful. But what do they deny? That’s always been my trouble with Indians – to find any proposition they would pronounce false. But truth must surely involve exclusions?
If the imagination were obedient, the appetites would give us very little trouble.
The first step towards humility – to realize that one is proud.
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying […]
You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a low opinion) of his own talents and character. Some talents, I gather, he really has. Fix in his mind the idea that humility consists in trying […]
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
Monarchy can easily be debunked, but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumor of the polyphony, the dance, can reach – men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire mere […]
