Open Means Open Means
C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

Country Ireland
Born Tuesday, 29 November 1898
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Quotes 59

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He was a great noverlist and the poet

Quotes by C.S. Lewis

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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. Uncategorized
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. Uncategorized
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. Uncategorized
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. Uncategorized
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. Uncategorized
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. Uncategorized
I gave in, and admitted that God was God. Uncategorized
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. Uncategorized
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. Uncategorized
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. Uncategorized
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. Uncategorized
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. Uncategorized
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
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. Uncategorized
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Uncategorized
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. Uncategorized
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. Uncategorized