Quotes on Stupidity:
“The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
(The Magician’s Nephew, The Chronicles of Narnia)
Quotes on Tastes:
“The real way of mending a man’s taste is not to denigrate his present
favourites but to teach him how to enjoy something better.”
(An Experiment in Criticism)
Quotes on Thinking:
"The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think."
(“Myth Became Fact,” God in the Dock)
"You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor
repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while
roaring with laughter."
(“Myth Became Fact,” God in the Dock)
Quotes on Time:
"Perpetuity is only the attainment of an endless series of moments, each
lost as soon as it is attained. Eternity is the actual and timeless
fruition of illimitable life. Time is... a hopeless attempt to
compensate for the transitoriness of its 'presents' by infinitely
multiplying them.”
(The Discarded Image)
“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”
(The Four Loves)
Quotes on Truth and Lies:
“By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger."
(The Last Battle, The Chronicles of Narnia)
Quotes on Universe and the World:
"If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to
attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?"
(The Problem of Pain)
“If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our
happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of
training and correction and it’s not so bad.”
(God in the Dock)
Quotes on Worthiness:
"Welcome, Prince," said Aslan. "Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?"
"I — I don't think I do, Sir," said Caspian. "I'm only a kid."
"Good," said Aslan. "If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not."
(Prince Caspian, The Chronicles of Narnia)
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