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3 stars [Biography](W: 3.25, U: 3, T: 2.5)
Exact rating: 2.92
#22 in genre, out of 28
A decent Biography of Thought on four of the main Inklings. Anyone looking for more than passing information on Barfield or Williams: this fulfills that aim.
The Zales ...more "
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
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“Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”
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“The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—
is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the
friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and
all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties
you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no
human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with
heaven, if Christ were not there? ”
― God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the
friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and
all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties
you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no
human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with
heaven, if Christ were not there? ”
― God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
“Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth
And what flies up, though it be but a spark,
Shall have weight.”
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And what flies up, though it be but a spark,
Shall have weight.”
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“The first prerequisite of the serious historical researcher must be the ability to jettison dearly held interpretations in the face of the recalcitrance of the evidence.”
― In Defense of History
― In Defense of History
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