2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly