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| Clive Staples Lewis -- Quote #1 |
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. -- Clive Staples Lewis
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| Clive Staples Lewis -- Quote #2 |
It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. -- Clive Staples Lewis
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| Clive Staples Lewis -- Quote #3 |
Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone. -- Clive Staples Lewis
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| Clive Staples Lewis -- Quote #4 |
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. -- Clive Staples Lewis
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| Clive Staples Lewis -- Quote #5 |
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -- Clive Staples Lewis
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| Clive Staples Lewis -- Quote #6 |
Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. -- Clive Staples Lewis
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| Clive Staples Lewis -- Quote #7 |
What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. -- Clive Staples Lewis
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| Clive Staples Lewis -- Quote #8 |
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
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| Clive Staples Lewis -- Quote #9 |
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one. -- Clive Staples Lewis
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| Clive Staples Lewis -- Quote #10 |
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him. -- Clive Staples Lewis
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