“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
“Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The whole struggle was over, and yet there seemed to have been no moment of victory. You might say, if you liked,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The true aim of literary studies is to lift the student out of his provincialism by making him ‘the spectator’, if not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What is vital and healthy does not necessarily survive . . . [a]n art, a whole civilization, may at any time slip… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“a few centuries earlier. At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Everyone will have noticed how the Old Testament seems at times to ignore our conception of the individual.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The complaint was the answer. To have heard myself making it was to be answered. Lightly men talk of saying what they… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nothing matters at all except the tendency of a given state of mind, in given circumstances, to move a particular patient at… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The assumption which you want him to go on making is so absurd that, if once it is questioned, even we cannot… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you run now, without a moment's rest, you will still be in time to warn King Lune." Shasta's heart fainted at… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Time is the very lens through which ye see—small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope—something that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“often pointed out that bright mornings brought on wet afternoons, and that you can't expect good times to last.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something… — 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
