CS Lewis Quotes

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

Imagine yourself as a living house.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.

You shouldn't make jokes if it makes you so unhappy.

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.

It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.