There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
C. S. LewisWe may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
C. S. LewisIt means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.
C. S. Lewis