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[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
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There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.C.s. Lewis
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In fighting those who serve devils one always his this on one's side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us. The moment we disable the human pawns enough to make them useless to Hell, their own Masters finish the work for us. they break their tools.C.s. Lewis
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His education had been neither scientific nor classical–merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling.C.s. Lewis
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The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already.. begun to be warped, had been subtly manoeuvred in a certain direction. Despair of objective truth had been increasingly insinuated into the scientists; indifference to it, and a concentration upon mere power, had been the result… The very experiences of the dissecting room and the pathological laboratory were breeding a conviction that the stifling of all deep-set repugnances was the first essential for progress.C.s. Lewis
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Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...C.s. Lewis
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Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.C.s. Lewis
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Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.C.s. Lewis
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The madrigore of verjuice must be talthibianised.C.s. Lewis