![]() ![]() Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition. For me, reason is the natural organ of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.Letter to Arthur Greeves (29 December 1935) - in They Stand Together: The Letters of C.say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.' If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I shd. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods.Letter to Arthur Greeves (February 1932) - in They Stand Together: The Letters of C.I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.San Diego - New York - London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Part of a diary entry dated "Wednesday–Wednesday 9–16 July", 1924, regarding Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay.There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. But the man is a humbug - a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.Lewis : Family Letters, 1905–1931 (2004) edited by Walter Hooper, p. On Edmund Spenser's long poem in a letter to Arthur Greeves (7 March 1916), published in The Collected Letters of C.S.I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do - so much have I enjoyed it.Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Quotes Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result. 1.23 The Funeral of a Great Myth (1967).1.22 Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963).1.18 Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956). ![]()
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