We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

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

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.