My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.
C. S. LewisAnd out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human historyโmoney, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slaveryโthe long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C. S. LewisThe point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.
C. S. LewisFor the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.
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