No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.