"Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.”

“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.”

“I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.”

“Life is a continuous process of adjustment.”

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

“I don't have one regret.”

“To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.”

“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.”

“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.”