It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.


THE ABOLITION OF MAN (ed. 1947)

C. S. Lewis Quotes

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no...

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no...

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no...

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no...