“I have known only one person in my life who claimed to have seen a ghost. It was a woman; and the interesting thing is that she disbelieved in the immortality of the soul before seeing the ghost and still disbelieves after having seen it. She thinks it was a hallucination. In other words, seeing is not believing. This is the first thing to get clear in talking about miracles.”

— Clive Staples Lewis, book God in the Dock

"Miracles" (1942), p. 25
God in the Dock (1970)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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