God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!