C. S. Lewis Quotes

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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We are what we believe we are.
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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