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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
- Wisdom
If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don’t feel at home there?
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Encounter with Light
- Theology
All men desire to know.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
- Theology
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“Miracles” (1942), p. 29
- Theology
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
- Theology
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain (1940), Ch. II: “Divine Omnipotence”
- Theology
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Problem of Pain
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Themes and Variations
- Religion
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle384–322 BC
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914Epigrams, p. 369
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918)
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963“The Road to Begin Your Life ((27 September 2007))”, 58.
- Theology
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Blaise Pascal1623–1662