“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” Clive Staples Lewis MeanWalking
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” Clive Staples Lewis ExperienceGodLearnTeacher
“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.” Clive Staples Lewis History
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” Clive Staples Lewis LifeRespect
“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.” Clive Staples Lewis Struggle
“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.” Clive Staples Lewis AnimalTime
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.” Clive Staples Lewis God
“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.” Clive Staples Lewis FeelPassion
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” Clive Staples Lewis GodPeace
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” Clive Staples Lewis DevilEducationEvil
“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.” Clive Staples Lewis Truth
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” Clive Staples Lewis BadLearn
“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.” Clive Staples Lewis
“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.” Clive Staples Lewis
“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.” Clive Staples Lewis DevilEvil
“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.” Clive Staples Lewis CareManReadingYoungWishSoundAtheist
“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.” Clive Staples Lewis HighReadingThank
“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” Clive Staples Lewis
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” Clive Staples Lewis OldTimeTruth
“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.'” Clive Staples Lewis DoneGod
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” Clive Staples Lewis
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” Clive Staples Lewis FriendsPhilosophy
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” Clive Staples Lewis Hate
