"The more lucidly we think, the more..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
More by C S Lewis
“Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.”
“Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.”
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
More on Thought
“Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.”
“Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.”
“The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.”
More on Reality
“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”
“As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.”
“He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.”