Quotes and excerpts

C.S.LEWIS

 - Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What?  You too?  I thought I was the only one.'

-Atheism turns out to be too simple.  If the universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

-You don't have a soul.  You are a soul;  you have a body.

George MacDonald

-A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

-I hope it is not necessary to agree with a man in everything before we can have a high opinion of him.

-I say, then, that every one of us is something that the other is not, and therefore knows some thing—it may be without knowing that he knows it—which no one else knows; and that it is every one’s business, as one of the kingdom of light, and inheritor in it all, to give his portion to the rest.

G.K. Chesterton

-Most of us have to fight for the things we think true, and especially against the things we are supposed to think true.

-Merely having an open mind is nothing.  The object of opening a mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

-There are no uninteresting things.  Only uninterested people.

aleksandr solzhenitsyn

… What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right now. Do not pursue what is illusionary -property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life -don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn for happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. It is enough if you don't freeze in the cold and if thirst and hunger don't claw at your insides. If your back isn't broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, if both ears hear, then whom should you envy? And why? Our envy of others devours us most of all. Rub your eyes and purify your heart -and prize above all else in the world those who love you and who wish you well. Do not hurt them or scold them, and never part from any of them in anger; after all, you simply do not know: it may be your last act before your arrest, and that will be how you are imprinted on their memory.