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“Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.”

Quote by C. S. Lewis

Book:God in the Dock

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God in the Dock

This book features a compilation of C.S. Lewis's reflections on faith, morality, and the nature of God, drawn from his sermons and lectures delivered over several decades. more

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C. S. Lewis was a British novelist, academic, and Christian theologian. He is renowned for his fictional works, particularly The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of fantasy novels that have become a beloved classic of children's literature. Lewis also penned adult fiction, including the science fiction trilogy Out of the Silent Planet and the space trilogy. His non-fiction works, such as Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain, have had a significant impact on Christian thought and spirituality. more

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“The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?”

Way States Progress Possibility Losing Independence Welfare Privacy Honey Avoiding Welfare State Paternalism Personal Privacy

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.”

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“As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.”

Humans Ends Christian Advice Granted Offering Human History Omniscience

Author:C. S. Lewis

“We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.”

Art Art Is Enjoyed Captives Good Art

Book:On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.”

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Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.”

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Book:The Magician's Nephew

Source: The Magician's Nephew

“Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?”

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Book:Perelandra

Source: Perelandra

“I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.”

Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays