Quotes by : Philip Zaleski

Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.

Christian myth, reveals the truth that "the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal....

The authors disclose that in less than a century the word "tension" grew from signifying a literal electric....

A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion....

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind....

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.....

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. –....

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you....

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual....