“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
Experience
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
HappinessAll Quotes by C. S. Lewis
“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.”
War“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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
Education“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
Fear“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
God“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
Motivational“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“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”
Marriage“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.”
Men“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“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
Failure“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.”
Future“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
Good“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“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
Love“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“Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
Imagination“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
God“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
History