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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.”

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C. S. Lewis

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

“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.”

Needs War Real Hands Might Opportunity Party Ideals Hunger Desperate Sickness Conception Dread Enslavement

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.”

Art Desire Strong Habit Art Is Delight Extremes Denial Very Strong Tobacco Smokers Fruition Malaise

Author:C. S. Lewis

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

Ifs Thinking Mean Mere Conceit Conceited Christian Humility Humble Person