Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.
As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.
For better to come, good must stand aside.
Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.
Commendation heals; condemnation destroys.
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
Percy looked at his friends. “I’m getting tired of this guy’s shirt.
Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.
God will always make a way where there is no way.