That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.
C. S. LewisThere is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
C. S. LewisAs for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.
C. S. LewisGod cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. LewisWhy you fool, it's the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles....He's our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.
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