“The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour, or, indeed, of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Keep his mind on the inner life. He thinks his conversion is something inside him, and his attention is therefore chiefly turned… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A man knows, on perfectly good evidence, that a pretty girl of his acquaintance is a liar and cannot keep a secret… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“But the great test is that the recognition of the new standards is accompanied with the sense of shame and guilt: one… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“what is behind the universe is more like a mind than it is like anything else we know.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“if the patient knows that the woman with the absurd hat is a fanatical bridge-player or the man with squeaky boots a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“They talked about God. They had no picture in their minds of some mist steaming upward: rather of strong, skillful hands thrust… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The word 'human' refers to something more than the bodily form or even the rational mind. It refers also to that community… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should a man do but try to reproduce… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denomination, the concepts… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“presumably made the counter-suggestion (you know how one can never quite overhear what He says to them?) that this was more important… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“for when a thing is enclosed, the mind does not willingly regard it as common.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I had not noticed how the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, minds praised most, while the cranks,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others-not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“he regards his time as his own and feels that it is being stolen. You must therefore zealously guard in his mind… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Fix in his mind the idea that humility consists in trying to believe those talents to be less valuable than he believes… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off… — 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
