C. S. Lewis Quotes

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

Love, Happiness, Whatever

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis

Motivational, Goal, Old

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

Friendship, Art, Philosophy

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.
C. S. Lewis

Religion, Everything, Sun

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis

Religion, Earth, Heaven

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

Change, Bad, Hard

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis

True, Important, Cannot

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

Wrong, Means, Progress

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis

Experience, God, Learn

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis

Peace, Happiness, God

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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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
C. S. Lewis

Yourself, Thinking, Humility

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis

Education, Rather, Devil

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis

Courage, Point, Simply

Even in literature and art, 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

Truth, Art, Before

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis

Good, May, Tyranny

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis

Truth, End, Thinking

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis

Eyes, Dark, Light

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis

History, Thought, Find

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis

Long, Book, Enough

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.
C. S. Lewis

Mean, Words, Big

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis

Faith, Passion, Guilty

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

Regret, Leave, Behind

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Sleep, Wife, Humility

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 29, 1898

Died: November 22, 1963

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