I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by actual existence, whatever character actual existence may have.
Weitere Zitate von C.S. Lewis
Zum Autor"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."
"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."
"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings - then we may take it (that) it is worth paying."
"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?"
"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."
"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."