“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
Failure
“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.”
MenAll Quotes by C. S. Lewis
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
Future“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
Courage“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.”
Religion“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.'”
God“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
History“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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
God“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
Good“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
God“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.”
History“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
Education“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“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
Religion“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
Motivational“Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.”
Friendship“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“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”
Nature“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“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
Marriage