“We find ourselves in a world of transporting pleasures, ravishing beauties, and tantalising possibilities, but all constantly being destroyed, all coming to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Man’s conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Then Bacchus and Silenus and the Maenads began a dance, far wilder than the dance of the trees; not merely a dance… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“that is just why a vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I don't like being reminded about how self-absorbed I was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didn't want… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If tribulation is a necessary element in the redemption we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And the Divine Nature can change the past. Nothing is yet in its true form.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But those two circles, above all the point at which they touched, are the very thing I am mourning for, homesick for,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is a profound mistake to imagine that Christianity ever intended to dissipate the bewilderment and even the terror, the sense of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Having mastered our environment, let us now master ourselves and choose our own destiny.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And as regards contraceptives, there is a paradoxical, negative sense in which all possible future generations are the patients or subjects of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Plato before him had said the same. The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary. Belief in miracles, far from depending on an ignorance of the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story no one on earth has ever read, which goes on… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nature is only the image, the symbol; but it is the symbol Scripture invites me to use. We are summoned to pass… — 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
