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The preservation of society, and of the species itself, are ends that do not hang on the precarious thread of Reason: they are given by Instinct. C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position. C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
If we are to have values at all we must accept the ultimate platitudes of Practical Reason as having absolute validity... C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. C.S. Lewis - The Abolition of Man
You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there. C.S. Lewis - from a letter To A Lady
Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done... C.S. Lewis - from a letter To Mrs. L. (50)
