My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.