Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. (C. S. Lewis)
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. (C. S. Lewis)
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. (C. S. Lewis)
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 have already become. (C. S. Lewis)
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. (C. S. Lewis)
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. (C. S. Lewis)
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. (C. S. Lewis)
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. (C. S. Lewis)
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. (C. S. Lewis)
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. (C. S. Lewis)
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 will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. (C. S. Lewis)
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. (C. S. Lewis)
By evolving, Life is solving All the questions we perplexed. (C. S. Lewis, "")
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. (C. S. Lewis)