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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Written by C. S. Lewis
Telling 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 gratified at the expense of the rest.
Written by C. S. Lewis
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Written by C. S. Lewis
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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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.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
Written by C. S. Lewis
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
Written by 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.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Written by C. S. Lewis
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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We are what we believe we are.
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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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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.
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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.
Written by 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.
Written by C. S. Lewis
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
Written by C. S. Lewis
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Written by C. S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Written by C. S. Lewis
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
Written by C. S. Lewis
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Written by C. S. Lewis

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