QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We must get rid of our arrogant assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose. As far as I can make out, the shoe is on the other foot. The only people who are really the dupes of their favourite newspapers are the intelligentsia. It is they who …
CSL Daily 12/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Great works’ (of art) and ‘good works’ (of charity) had better also be Good Work. Let choirs sing well or not at all.” Good Work and Good Works (Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VIII” was …
CSL Daily 12/27/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII (Published in The Guardian on 12/22/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Dec. 27, 1918 Lewis arrived home unexpectedly in the morning after being demobilized on the 24th. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 12/16/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.” The Inner Ring (Talk given on 12/14/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis mentioned, “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the …
CSL Daily 12/15/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A jealous man, drifting and unresisting, reaches a point at which he believes lies about his best friend…But errors which are sincere in that sense are not innocent.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI (Published in The Guardian on 12/15/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or …
CSL Daily 12/14/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.” The Inner Ring (Talk given on 12/14/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the annual Commemoration Oration at King’s College on Dec. 14, 1944. His topic was “The Inner Ring.” – – …
CSL Daily 12/08/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I do not look at myself. I have given up myself.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V (Published in The Guardian on 12/8/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V” was published on Dec. 8, 1944 in The Guardian. This eventually became part …
CSL Daily 12/01/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than things in our country that men were ghosts by comparison.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV (Published in The Guardian on 12/1/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes …
CSL Daily 11/24/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘You mean the evening is really going to turn into a night in the end?’ ‘He nodded.’” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III (First published in The Guardian on 11/24/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published on Nov. 24, 1944 in The …
CSL Daily 11/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting historical characters. But you don’t: they’re too far away.” “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” (First published in The Guardian on 11/17/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” …