Lewis, C. S. (C. S. Lewis)

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
-- C.S. Lewis

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.
-- C.S. Lewis

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.
-- C.S. Lewis

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
-- C.S. Lewis

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
-- C.S. Lewis

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
-- C.S. Lewis

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
-- C.S. Lewis

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
-- C.S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-- C.S. Lewis

The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

-- C.S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
-- C.S. Lewis

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
-- C.S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-- C.S. Lewis

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