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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Quote from C.S. Lewis

After the original image we viewed from C.S. Lewis that had the text "This is not a pipe", I found a really neat quote from Lewis on the internet.

"You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."

I think this quote, along with the Pipe painting, go to show how anti-materialist Lewis is. Much of Lewis's other work is very religious and often focuses on the importance and strength of the human spirit, which I think is neat given that most intellectuals and philosophers of his day were often criticized heavily and rarely partook in religion.
To me, this quote shows how we as a race rarely consider the value of what makes us separate from the machine that is our own Earth. The soul is something that many people often neglect in order to please their physical and usually much more demanding form.

1 comment:

  1. I also found this quote to be very interesting. By reading some of the literature by C.S. Lewis in the past, I have noticed this same theme as well.

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