Reality Quotes by C. S. Lewis

25 Reality quotes by C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis brings a uniquely literary lens to the question of what is real, fusing narrative flair with ethical reflection. His observations navigate the tension between myth and everyday life, offering readers a blend of wit and wisdom.

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Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

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Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

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Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.

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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can…

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I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him…

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Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition,…

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That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

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Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…

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Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a…

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and…

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the…

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What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which…

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Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize…

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The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it…

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Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every…

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He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating…

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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so…

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My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of…

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It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought.…

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Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very…

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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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In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by…

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We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now…

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For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied…

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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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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders…

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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 life has…

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