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“Vision—the power of dreaming realities—is sometimes hereditary,”
“Vision is not a disease.”
“Any child loves rain if it’s allowed to go out and paddle about in it.”
“Child,” said the Director, “it is not a question of how you or I look on marriage but how my Masters look on it.”
“They would say,” he answered, “that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.”
Equality is not the deepest thing, you know.”
Equality before the law, equality of incomes—that is very well. Equality guards life; it doesn’t make it. It is medicine, not food. You might as well try to warm yourself with a bluebook.”
Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.
But you see that obedience and rule are more like a dance than a drill—specially between man and woman where the roles are always changing.”
There will never be peace and order and discipline so long as there is sex. When man has thrown it away, then he will become finally governable.”
It is for the conquest of death: or for the conquest of organic life, if you prefer. They are the same thing.
“If you two quarrel much more,” said the Director, “I think I’ll make you marry one another.”
It is idle to point out to the perverted man the horror of his perversion: while the fierce fit is on, that horror is the very spice of his craving. It is ugliness itself that becomes, in the end, the goal of his lechery; beauty has long since grown too weak a stimulant.
Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing.
A conscious being is either obeying God or disobeying Him.
For the Hideous Strength confronts us and it is as in the days when Nimrod built a tower to reach heaven.”
“No power that is merely earthly,” he continued at last, “will serve against the Hideous Strength.”
