Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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C. S. Lewis
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About C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles and The Problem of …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by C. S. LewisTelling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratifi…
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you wil…
Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives h…
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives h…
Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.