 Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation. Topics: Philosophy
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| You cannot study pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter. Topics: Philosophy, Laughter |
| This moment contains all moments. Topics: Philosophy
Source: The Great Divorce |
| We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good. Topics: Philosophy
Source: 'Hedonics' Time and Tide |
| Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible. Topics: Philosophy
Source: Reflections on the Psalms |
| No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'. Topics: Philosophy, Scripture, Truth
Source: Miracles |
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| If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. Topics: Philosophy, Enemies, Struggles |
| Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. Topics: Philosophy |
| It does seem to me like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most necessary. Topics: Philosophy |
| Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves. Topics: Politics, Pride, Men |
| He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself. Topics: Politics, Surrender |
| I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. Topics: Praise
Source: Reflections on the Psalms |
