All C.S. Lewis Quotes
- Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from… Agreed
- I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been… All
- Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery. Days
- A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a… Another World
- The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us… Central
- Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When… Acts
- The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched… Author
- There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. Earth
- Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is… All
- We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them. Conquer
- The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is,… All
- If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method. Becomes
- Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to… Absorbed
- The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. Christianity
- I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man… Aware
- There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand. All
- The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be… Any
- Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have… Acquired
- Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age… Adults
- God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and… Child
- People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on… Block
- If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you… Aim
- It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the… Bargain
- An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. Book
- All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. All