Humans Quotes by C. S. Lewis

49 Humans quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis blended imagination with moral clarity, and his thoughts on people are no exception. Here are forty‑nine of his most resonant observations, perfect for a quick, reflective pause.

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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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Human intellect is incurably abstract.

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We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

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It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

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Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

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The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit…

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Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

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The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of…

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The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or…

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Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent…

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Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending,…

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The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach…

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Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite…

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Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a…

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In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a…

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To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be…

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A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the…

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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.…

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And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off…

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The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that…

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Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always…

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The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets…

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You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.…

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Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now…

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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which…

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And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but,…

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The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more…

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The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

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To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

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

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If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise…

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It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They…

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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would…

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War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human…

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The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed.…

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Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the…

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All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a…

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Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world.…

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When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will…

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“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”

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“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…

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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

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If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

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The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

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