“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
Courage
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
FutureAll Quotes by C. S. Lewis
“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
Marriage“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
Imagination“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
Religion“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
Future“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
Time“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
History“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.”
Birthday“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.”
Art“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
Fear“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.”
Truth“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.”
God“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
Happiness“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
Age“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.”
Life“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.”
Change“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
God“Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.”
Friendship“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”
Art“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
Education