"By the very act of arguing, you..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.”

“I don't want to hold you hand!”

“Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.”

“Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.”

“The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.”

“A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.”

“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”