01c. 1919 ADYou come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
03c. 1919 ADIn our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
04c. 1919 ADWrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
06c. 1919 ADWhen things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
10c. 1919 ADIt is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest 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, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
12c. 1919 ADYou know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
13c. 1919 ADThe terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call "ourselves," to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be "good.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
14c. 1919 ADDo not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
15c. 1919 ADI ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
17c. 1919 ADWe can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirelyC.S. Lewis / quote ↗
18c. 1919 AD[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
19c. 1919 ADShe's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
21c. 1919 ADHis Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. This is no limit to His power. If you choose to say, ‘God can give a creature free will and at the same time withhold free will from it,’ you have not succeeded in saying anything about God: meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words, 'God can.' It remains true that all things are possible with God: the intrinsic impossibilities are not things but nonentities. It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
22c. 1919 ADThe student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
23c. 1919 ADThought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
24c. 1919 AD[Wither] knew that everything was lost. It is incredible how little this knowledge moved him. What had been in his far-off youth a merely aesthetic repugnance to realities that were crude or vulgar, had deepened and darkened, year after year, into a fixed refusal of everything that was in any degree other than himself. He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void. The indicative mood now corresponded to no thought that his mind could entertain. He had willed with his whole heart that there should be no reality and no truth, and now even the imminence of his own ruin could not wake him.C.S. Lewis / quote ↗
