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C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial da
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of ’religion.’
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.