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Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (1983)
“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils.”
Preface
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
Context: There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.
“Evolution is a two-way street.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Context: p>Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
On one another, as a man depends
On a woman, day on night, the imaginedOn the real. This is the origin of change.
Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace
And forth the particulars of rapture come.</p
“I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change”
Source: 1930s, Propagation problems and impulse problems in dynamic economics, 1933, p. 33
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.
“Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.”
“If two opposite theories are propagated one will be wrong.”
Nahj al-Balagha
Article in Nature, 1931, vol 128, page 704
