"There are no variations except for those..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.”

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”

“As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off.”

“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).”

“Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.”

“Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.”

“You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.”

“That so few understand me is why I am treasured.”

“The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.”