"You can't really study people; you can..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.”

“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

“Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.”

“When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.”

“An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.”

“Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.”

“In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.”