I think he can save himself time by confining his attention to two systems–Hinduism and Christianity. I believe these are the two serious options for an adult mind. Materialism is a philosophy for boys. The purely moral systems like Stoicism and Confucianism are philosophies for aristocrats.  Islam is only a Christian heresy, and Buddhism a [...]

The defiance of the good atheist hurled at an apparently ruthless and idiotic cosmos is really an unconscious homage to something in or behind that cosmos which he recognizes as infinitely valuable and authoritative: for if mercy and justice were really only private whims of his own with no objective and impersonal roots, and if [...]

Indeed to say that a mind has a sense of values totally different from the only values we can conceive is to say that that mind has we know not what: which is precious near saying nothing particular about it.
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C. S. Lewis, “De Futilitate,” in Christian Reflections (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995), [...]

We reach our knowledge of the universe only by inference. The very object to which our thought is suppose to be irrelevant depends on the relevance of our thought. A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us that inference is invalid. That would [...]

I am only pointing out that the material or external world in general is an inferred world and that therefore particular experiments far from taking us out of the magic circle of inference into some supposed direct contact with reality, are themselves evidential only as parts of that great inference. The physical sciences, then, depend [...]