 It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Allegory of Love |
| If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: The Abolition of Man |
| The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time. Author: C.S. Lewis |
| There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: An Experiment in Criticism |
| Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly. Author: C.S. Lewis |
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| No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: Miracles |
| Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned? Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: Letters to Malcolm |
| 'We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge--the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.' Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: Out of the Silent Planet |
| In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are. Author: C.S. Lewis |
| Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. Author: C.S. 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, you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. Author: C.S. Lewis |
