“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Who are you?” asked Shasta. “Myself,” said the Voice, very deep and low so that the earth shook: and again “Myself,” loud… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If ants had a language they would, no doubt, call their anthill an artifact and describe the brick wall in its neighborhood… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Since I can see no answer to these questions, I draw the following conclusions. This thing which I have called for convenience… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the ugliest things in human nature are perversions of good and innocent things.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A vocation is a terrible thing. To be called out of nature into the supernatural life is at first (or perhaps not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What seems strained - a mere triumph of perverse ingenuity - to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Hush!’ said the Cabby. They all listened. In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If we thought we were building up a heaven on earth, if we looked for something that would turn the present world… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Already the new men are dotted here and there all over the earth. Some, as I have admitted, are still hardly recognisable:… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest, and all of them, even… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Be winged. Be the father of all flying horses," roared Aslan in a voice that shook the ground. "Your name is Fledge."… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every conquest over Nature increases her domain. The stars do not become Nature till we can weigh and measure them: the soul… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Tao, which others may call Natural Law or Traditional Morality or the First Principles of Practical Reason or the First Platitudes,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“At present we are on the outside… the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but… — 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