What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis. — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
“Truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is".” — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket… — CS Lewis Copy Share
“The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense of the vocabulary of definition. As old horses go to the knacker's… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel us into unity, by persecution even and… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
When you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
“if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike” — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
