89 Quotations by C. S. Lewis
- 1. A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional... values have in the background values of their own ...
- 2. A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun ...
- 3. A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and ...
- 4. A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
- 5. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking d ...
- 6. A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- 7. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our liv ...
- 8. Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
- 9. All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
- 10. An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
- 11. Badness is only spoiled goodness.
- 12. Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
- 13. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which m ...
- 14. Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
- 15. Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you' ...
- 16. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- 17. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
- 18. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if y ...
- 19. Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes ...
- 20. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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