We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in an educated adult, is the perfectly serious indoctrination of the young in knowably false or biased history - the heroic legend drably disguised as text-book fact. With this creeps in the tacit assumption that other nations have not equally their heroes; perhaps even the belief - surely it is very bad biology - that we can literally 'inherit' tradition.

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.