Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorNo man knows how bad he is until he has tried to be good. You can only know the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by letting it carry you.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorNinety percent of all solid and lasting happiness is owed to affection.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorThe human mind is incapable of inventing new values, not even a new primary color.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorWe laugh at honor and then we are surprised to find traitors among us.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorWe have prepared men to think of the future as a promised land reached by heroes, not as something anyone reaches at a rate of sixty minutes per hour, no matter what they do.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorFriendship does not have a survival value, but rather it is one of the things that gives value to survival.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorGod whispers and speaks to the conscience through pleasure, but shouts through pain: pain is His megaphone to awaken a slumbering world.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorIf you seek the truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you seek comfort, you will find neither truth nor comfort.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorThe task of the modern educator is not to prune the forests, but to water the deserts.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorAny fool can write in scholarly language. The true test is everyday language.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorSome politicians argue that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give them a seat in parliament.
Clive Staples Lewis
View AuthorTo see through everything is the same as not seeing at all.