Philosophy Quote by C.S. Lewis — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't.”

“It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.”

“Doubtless, by definition, God was Reason itself. But would he also be "reasonable" [...]”

“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”

“There seem, in fact, to be only two views we can hold about awe. Either it is a mere twist in the human mind, corresponding to nothing objective and serving no biological function, yet showing no tendency to disappear from that mind at its fullest development in poet, philosopher, or saint: or else it is a direct experience of the really supernatural, to which the name Revelation might properly be given.”

“To call yourself a “realistic” person is intensely arrogant and naïve.”

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind,”

“There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed—thereafter, their lives could only get better.”

“At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.”

“Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.”

“Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.”