We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.