2,254 Quotes by C. S. Lewis

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.