“If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.” — C. S. Lewis
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It’s Only A Coincidence
The date is circled as significant. Robert Johnson, Elvis Presley and now Aretha Franklin.
My favourite pseudo-significant date is November 22, 1963. JFK, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis. It’s a good thing that date wont show up again.
Robert Johnson now belongs to a second “club.”
Quote of the Day
“The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” — C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
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“If you find my arithmetic correct, then no amount of vapouring about my psychological condition can be anything but a waste of time. If you find my arithmetic wrong, then it may be relevant to explain psychologically how I came to be so bad at my arithmetic.” — C. S. Lewis, Bulverism
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“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.” — C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
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“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” — C. S. Lewis, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children”
Quote of the Day
“Those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C. S. Lewis
“Those who torment us for our own good, will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C. S. Lewis, “God in the Dock”
Quote of the Day
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” — C. S. Lewis, “God in the Dock”
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“Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.” — C. S. Lewis, “Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare”, Rehabilitations
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