“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
More from C.S. Lewis on Philosophy
“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
“I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.”
“Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.”
“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.”
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”
“Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.”
“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.”
“We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Buddha
13 quotes“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
Joseph Conrad
13 quotes“The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.”