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Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules. C.S. Lewis - A Preface to Paradise Lost
In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige. C.S. Lewis - A Preface to Paradise Lost
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations. C.S. Lewis - A Preface to Paradise Lost
People blush at praise- not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs. C.S. Lewis - A Preface to Paradise Lost
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting. C.S. Lewis - The Allegory of Love
The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it. C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.' C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
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. Lewis - The Abolition of Man