CS Lewis Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

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

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.

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

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.

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

It is better to forget about yourself altogether.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say "hi". You say hi and people whisper "Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude."

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.

If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

Overall, I'm quite good with how I spend my cashola.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.

I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?