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C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Irish novelist and poet

Lived from: 1898 - 1963

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 29 november 1898 Died: 22 november 1963

  • 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.
  • God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
  • What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
  • There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done."
  • The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
  • There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ''Thy will be done,'' and those to whom God says, ''All right, then, have it your way.''
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  • 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.
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  • Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
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  • An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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  • For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
    Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare, Rehabilitations (1939)
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  • It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
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  • Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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