“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
More from C.S. Lewis on Philosophy
“[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“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”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.”
“We are what we believe we are.”
Others on Philosophy
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
T. S. Eliot
13 quotes“We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.Now is the triumph of the cross.”
Sigmund Freud
13 quotes“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”