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Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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We have prepared men to think of the future as a promised land reached by heroes, not as something anyone reaches at a rate of sixty minutes per hour, no matter what they do.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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Friendship does not have a survival value, but rather it is one of the things that gives value to survival.

Clive Staples Lewis

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God whispers and speaks to the conscience through pleasure, but shouts through pain: pain is His megaphone to awaken a slumbering world.

Clive Staples Lewis

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If you seek the truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you seek comfort, you will find neither truth nor comfort.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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The task of the modern educator is not to prune the forests, but to water the deserts.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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Any fool can write in scholarly language. The true test is everyday language.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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Some politicians argue that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give them a seat in parliament.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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To see through everything is the same as not seeing at all.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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If nothing is evident by itself, nothing is verifiable, and if nothing is obligatory by itself, nothing is obligatory at all.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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If the rebels could succeed, they would discover that they had destroyed themselves.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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The best defense against bad literature is a rich experience with good literature; just as to protect oneself from scoundrels, it is much more effective to truly associate with honest people than to distrust everyone as a matter of principle.

Clive Staples Lewis

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If you don't study theology, it doesn't mean that you don't have ideas about God, but rather that you will have many misconceptions.