Denis Diderot on philosophy

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

• Forgiveness
• Love
• Theology

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 10, “Hope”

• Theology