Santiago Vieto Rodríguez > Santiago's Quotes

“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
― 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, Mere Christianity

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so much of your work. I want YOU!!! ALL OF YOU!! I have not come to torment or frustrate the natural man or woman, but to KILL IT! No half measures will do. I don’t want to only prune a branch here and a branch there; rather I want the whole tree out! Hand it over to me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and dreams. Turn them ALL over to me, give yourself to me and I will make of you a new self---in my image. Give me yourself and in exchange I will give you Myself. My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“In order not to think of the world which science describes, man gets drunk on technology.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“The two terms of the democratic alternative today—oppressive bureaucracy or repugnant plutocracy—are canceling each other out.

Combining into a single term: opulent bureaucracy.

At once repugnant and oppressive.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

“Two hundred years ago it was permissible to trust in the future without being totally stupid.
But today, who can believe in the current prophecies, since we are yesterday’s splendid future?”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“What is called progress are preparations for a catastrophe.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“Modern man denies himself every metaphysical dimension and considers himself a mere object of science. But he screams when they exterminate him as such.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Scholia to an Implicit Text

“An age is civilized if it does not reserve intelligence for professional work.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“Man, until yesterday, did not deserve to be called a rational animal.
The definition was inexact as long as he invented, according to his preference, religious attitudes and ethical behavior, aesthetic tasks and philosophical meditations.
Today, on the other hand, man limits himself to being a rational animal, that is to say: an inventor of practical rules at the service of his animality.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“Either we learn from Greek tragedy how to read human history, or we never learn how to read it.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms

“An American historian cannot write history without lamenting that providence did not consult him beforehand.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms