Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey “people.” People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war…. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest….
Tag: C. S. Lewis
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I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.