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“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
― The Last Wish
― The Last Wish
“The current understanding of happiness identifies it as a pleasurable feeling. Pleasant feelings are surely better than unpleasant ones, but the problem today is that people are obsessively concerned with feeling happiness; people are slaves to their feelings. Feelings are wonderful servants but terrible masters. When people make happiness their goal, they do not find it and, as a result, start living their lives vicariously through identification with celebrities.”
― Lost Virtue of Happiness: Discovering the Disciplines of the Good Life
― Lost Virtue of Happiness: Discovering the Disciplines of the Good Life
“...many atheists embrace Jesus as having been a great teacher, and yet he's the one who had the most to say about hell.”
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“No: Space was the wrong name. Older thinkers had been wiser when they named it simply the heavens—the heavens which declared the glory—the happy climes that ly Where day never shuts his eye Up in the broad fields of the sky. He quoted Milton’s words to himself lovingly, at this time and often.”
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
― The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
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