A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process
C. S. LewisChronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.
C. S. LewisA sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
C. S. LewisThis is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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