Previous Quote

C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius Quotes

Next Quote
Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality. - Quote by C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius

The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality.

C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius
Copy LinkCopy Link
Copy QuoteCopy Quote
Copy ImageCopy Image
Download Image of QuoteDownload Image

About The Quote

Related Authors

More Quotes From C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius

Lewis's mental map of reality had difficulty accommodating the trauma of the Great War. Like so many, he found the settled way of looking at the world, taken for granted by many in the Edwardian age, to have been shattered by the most brutal and devastating war yet known." (51) Part (McGrath suggests) of Lewis's well-documented search for truth and meaning, that search that ultimately led him to Christianity, emerges from the desire to make sense of his traumatic experience in ways that satisfied him spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually.
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius
The study of the past helps us to appreciate that the ideas and values of our own age are just as provisional and transient as those of bygone ages. The intelligent and reflective engagement with the thought of a bygone era ultimately subverts any notion of "chronological snobbery". Reading texts from the past makes it clear that what we now term "the past" was once "the present", which proudly yet falsely regarded itself as having found the right intellectual answers and moral values that had eluded its predecessors.
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius
Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius
Report Quote Report Quote Report Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote Submit Quote