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C. S. Lewis - From the Artists category:
Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace, is drawn away from love of the things he tells to love of the telling... (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Books category:
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Courage category:
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Education category:
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Experience category:
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Fashion category:
Whatever is not eternal is eternally out of date. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Friendship category:
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Friendship category:
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.' (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Happiness category:
They had the talent for happiness in a high degree – went straight for it the way experienced travelers go for the best seat in a train. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Instinct category:
Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest... (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Journey category:
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Language category:
Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Love category:
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Originality category:
No man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth, without caring twopence how often it has been told before, you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Progress category:
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Senses category:
What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations. (C. S. Lewis)
C. S. Lewis - From the Universe category:
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust?
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? (C. S. Lewis)
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