It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.