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

C. S. Lewis Quotes

Irish - Author November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963 Read full biography

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

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

Education, More, Rather

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. C. S. Lewis

Daily Life, Necessary, Lives

We are what we believe we are. - C. S. Lewis

We are what we believe we are. C. S. Lewis

Believe, Brainy

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. - C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis

Teacher, Task, Deserts

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

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

Courage, Virtues, Form

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

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

Happiness, Tea, Big

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. C. S. Lewis

Failure, Finger, Toward

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, Give

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. - C. S. Lewis

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. C. S. Lewis

Jesus Christ, Christ, Jesus

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. C. S. Lewis

Will, Christ, Long Run

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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. C. S. Lewis

I See, Saint Patrick's Day

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C. S. Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C. S. Lewis

Truth, Organ, Natural Order

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, Egg, Hatched

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. - C. S. Lewis

Joy is the serious business of Heaven. C. S. Lewis

Business, Joy, Serious

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

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

Religion, Will, Aim

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision. C. S. Lewis

Long, Two, Rather

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

Doing, Want, Means

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

Wife, Listening, Infinitely

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

Important, Moderately

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. C. S. Lewis

Education, Some, My Self

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. C. S. Lewis

Always, Sure, Sentence

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

God, More, Refusing

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

Most, Oppressive, Sincerely

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. C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Small, Which

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. - C. S. Lewis

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. C. S. Lewis

Wisdom, Ever, Given

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, Give, Himself

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