"Now the trouble about trying to make..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
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“Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.”
“There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.”
“You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.”
More on Self Deception
“Like oneWho having into truth, by telling of it,Made such a sinner of his memory,To credit his own lie.”
“If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.”
“We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.”