"A man does not call a line..." - Quote by C S Lewis
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
More by C S Lewis
“You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.”
“Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow.”
“The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.”
More on Morality
More on Good And Evil
“A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.”
“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.”
“With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.”