C.S. Lewis — Out of the Silent Planet

"So far as is possible our knowledge should be checked and supplemented, not derived, from the dictionary."

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

They see the world around them swayed by emotional propaganda; they have learned from tradition that youth is sentimental; and they conclude that the best thing they can do is to fortify the minds of young people against…

Our policy, for the moment, is to conceal ourselves. Of course this has not always been so. We are really faced with a cruel dilemma. When the humans disbelieve in our existence we lose all the pleasing results of direct…

Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time. Are they? said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.