"But in general, take my advice, when..." - Quote by C S Lewis
But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.
More by C S Lewis
“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.”
“It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.”
“Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?”
More on Humanity
“Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.”
“My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.”
“Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.”
More on Identity
“It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”
“Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.”
“I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.”