To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
C. S. LewisIf God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?
C. S. LewisI can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.
C. S. Lewis