The Abolition of Man & The Great Divorce Quotes

“Because our approvals and disapprovals are thus recognitions of objective value or responses to an objective order, therefore emotional states can be in harmony with reason (when we feel liking for what ought to be approved) or out of harmony with reason (when we perceive that liking is due but we cannot feel it). No emotion is, in itself, a judgment: in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. But they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.”
― C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man & The Great Divorce

“Milton was right. The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the word's, 'Better to reign in hell than to serve in Heaven'. There's always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery...”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man & The Great Divorce