CS Lewis Quotes

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

It is better to forget about yourself altogether.

Those who are most able to buy what you have to sell are those who most demand that you agree with them.

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.

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.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

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.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

I've been very lucky.

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

He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

Ordinary won't change the world.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

My heroes were all in the theatre.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.

Look at the footprints you've made.

As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense.

One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.

Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.