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Your bid-for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity-will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high. Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself. [A Grief Observed] - C. S. Lewis


A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. - C. S. Lewis


Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. - Rose Franken


Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world. - Richard Aldington


I can live without it all, love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear. - Erica Mann Jong


The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual, when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions, it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. - Isaac Bashevis Singer


Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. - Horace [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]


A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu


Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. - Democritus

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