“Friendship is the happiest and most fully human of all loves, the crown of life.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we cannot persuade our friends by reasons we must be content "and not bring a mercenary army to our aid" (He… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Designed for good [my friend was sputtering and throwing smoke]. The soul was not designed for this, I thought. We were supposed… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood still as a stock… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Can you not see death as the friend and deliverer? It means stripping off that body which is tormenting you. What are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Are not all lifelong friendships born in the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart—an endless… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In words which can still bring tears to the eyes, St. Augustine describes the desolation into which the death of his friend… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No doubt he must very soon realize that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT is the instrument by… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friend, I am not suggesting at all. You see, I know now. Let us be frank. Our opinions were not honestly come… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of matter, nor of the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In a perfect Friendship this Appreciative love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The First [Friend] is the alter ego, the man who first reveals to you that you are not alone in the world… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But in Friendship, being free of all that, we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few years' difference in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of--something, not to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to avow them and half doubtful if they can… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church -… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We use a most unfortunate idiom when we say, of a lustful man prowling the streets, that he "wants a woman". Strictly speaking, a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Después de cada fracaso, pedid perdón, levantaos del suelo y volved a intentarlo. Muy a menudo, lo que Dios nos otorga primero no es… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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![“The First [Friend] is the alter ego, the man who first reveals to you that you are not alone in the world by turning out (beyond hope) to share all your most secret delights. There is nothing to be overcome in making him your friend; he and you join like raindrops on a window. But the Second…” quote by C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/011/c-s-lewis-121_debate_the-first-friend-is-the-alter-ego-the-ma_432773.jpg)
