“Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the 'right' notes and the 'wrong' ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts.”
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“for the greater the love the greater the grief, and the stronger the faith the more savagely will Satan storm its fortress.”
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“I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.”
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“I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.”
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“Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.”
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“And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.”
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“You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.”
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“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
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“Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.”
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“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see. ”
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“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.”
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“but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy”
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“When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen
different doors and to those who are still in the hall.”
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“And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.”
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“I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't.”
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