“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“To us a human is primarily food; our aim is the absorption of its will into ours, the increase of our own… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The effect of modern war is to eliminate retrogressive types, while sparing the technocracy and increasing its hold upon public affairs.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Oxford It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Shasta was dreadfully frightened. But it suddenly came into his head, "If you funk this, you'll funk every battle all your life.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We expect a solution of the unemployment problem, the cancer problem, the housing problem, the problems of currency, of war, of education.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I had a great dislike of people who themselves in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Once he was in the street the battle was won. I showed him a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I know that’s how they talk. But if there’s a real war why don’t they do anything? Don’t you see that if… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Their history is largely a record of crime, war, disease, and terror, with just sufficient happiness interposed to give them, while it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war. But it does not think this is a war between independent powers.… — 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