All C. S. Lewis Quotes
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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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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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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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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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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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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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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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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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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