Quotes from CS Lewis
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- CS Lewis
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
- CS Lewis
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
- CS Lewis
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
- CS Lewis
It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
- CS Lewis
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
- CS Lewis
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
- CS Lewis
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
- CS Lewis
I am in love and out of it I will not go.
- CS Lewis
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power.
- CS Lewis
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.
- CS Lewis
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
- CS Lewis