By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.


The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast (ed. 1961)


By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying...

By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying...

By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying...

By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying...