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C. S. Lewis
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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well.
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The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
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Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
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Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
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It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.
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No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
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Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself
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The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being.
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It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.
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What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.
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The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.
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We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.
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Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.
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It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
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How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?
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What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
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