Chelsea Joy

“those who stand outside all judgements of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to another except the emotional strength of that impulse. We may legitimately hope that among the impulses which arise in minds thus emptied of all ‘rational’ or ‘spiritual’ motives, some will be benevolent. I am very doubtful myself whether the benevolent impulses,”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“A great many of those who ‘debunk’ traditional or (as they would say) ‘sentimental’ values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process. They claim to be cutting away the parasitic growth of emotion, religious sanction, and inherited taboos, in order that ‘real’ or ‘basic’ values may emerge.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“It is the magician’s bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, our selves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man