"Imagine a set of people all living in……" — C.S. Lewis

"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 a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic."

All Quotes Become Quotes Become Optimistic Quotes Become Pessimists Quotes Building Quotes Building Half Quotes Comfort Quotes Comfortable Quotes Comforts Quotes Decide Quotes Doctrine Quotes Doctrine Is One Quotes End Quotes Ends Quotes Half Quotes Half Think Quotes Hold Quotes Hotel Quotes Imagine Quotes Intolerable Quotes Living Quotes Might Quotes One Quotes Optimistic Quotes Optimistic View Quotes Other Quotes Other Half Quotes People Quotes People Who Hold Quotes People Who Try Quotes Pessimist Quotes Pessimists Quotes Pretty Quotes Pretty Stern Quotes Prison Quotes Quite Quotes Quite Intolerable Quotes Really Quotes Really Surprisingly Quotes Regard Quotes Same Quotes Same Building Quotes Seems Quotes Set Quotes Stern Quotes Stern View Quotes Strengthens Quotes Strengthens You Quotes Surprisingly Quotes Surprisingly Comfortable Quotes Them Quotes Think Quotes Thinking Quotes This World Quotes Thought Quotes Try Quotes Trying Quotes Ugly Quotes Ugly Doctrine Quotes View Quotes Views Quotes World Quotes World Would Become Quotes

1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

See all 1,827 quotes by C.S. Lewis »

More All Quotes

This quote is filed under All Quotes, one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally… — Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all… — Hannah Arendt
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and… — Hannah Arendt
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is… — Pietro Aretino
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle

See all 128,558 All Quotes »