C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewiswas a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University, 1925–54, and Cambridge University, 1954–63. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth29 November 1898
CountryIreland
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.
Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.
Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.