Quotes I never expected from old Clive Staples...
"Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose."
--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting."
--The Allegory of Love
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."
--The Abolition of Man
"If we are to have values at all we must accept the ultimate platitudes of Practical Reason as having absolute validity..."
--The Abolition of Man
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
--The Problem of Pain
"Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal."
--The Problem of Pain
"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."
--The Problem of Pain
"Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire."
--The Problem of Pain
"An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath."
--Surprised by Joy
"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves."
--On Three Ways of Writing for Children
"The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle."
--On Three Ways of Writing for Children (100)
"Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already."
--The Great Divorce
"Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated."
--Letters (25 May 1962)
"'Safe?' said Mr. Beaver...'Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. but he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'"
--The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
"Hatred obscures all distinctions."
--'On Science Fiction', Of Other Worlds
--A Preface to Paradise Lost
"To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting."
--The Allegory of Love
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."
--The Abolition of Man
"If we are to have values at all we must accept the ultimate platitudes of Practical Reason as having absolute validity..."
--The Abolition of Man
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
--The Problem of Pain
"Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal."
--The Problem of Pain
"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."
--The Problem of Pain
"Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire."
--The Problem of Pain
"An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath."
--Surprised by Joy
"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves."
--On Three Ways of Writing for Children
"The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle."
--On Three Ways of Writing for Children (100)
"Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already."
--The Great Divorce
"Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated."
--Letters (25 May 1962)
"'Safe?' said Mr. Beaver...'Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. but he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'"
--The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
"Hatred obscures all distinctions."
--'On Science Fiction', Of Other Worlds