C. S. Lewis

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

C. S. Lewis

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

C. S. Lewis

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

C. S. Lewis

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.

C. S. Lewis

Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about ‘misery.’

C. S. Lewis

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

C. S. Lewis

One of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

C. S. Lewis

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

C. S. Lewis

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

C. S. Lewis

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

C. S. Lewis