C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

Extensive quotes from CS Lewis. If you see one that helps you, please RT it along! - **ALL QUOTES on this account are confirmed from his official work.** Joined January 2022

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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Let us suppose for a moment that the harder virtues could really be theoretically justified with no appeal to objective value. It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. -CS Lewis, Men Without Chests

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something REALLY infinite. -CS Lewis, Letters

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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It is not that they are bad men. They are not men at all. Stepping outside [what I here call] the Tao, they have stepped into the void. -CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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As we pass from mother love to rational planning for the future we are passing away from the realm of instinct into that of choice and reflection, and if instinct is the source of value, planning for the future ought to be less respectable and less obligatory than the baby…

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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In a word, the old was a kind of propagation—men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young…

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please. -CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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The idea that, without appealing to any court higher than the instincts themselves, we can yet find grounds for preferring one instinct above its fellows dies very hard. We grasp at useless words: we call it the ‘basic’, or ‘fundamental’, or ‘primal’, or ‘deepest’ instinct. It…

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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If you become a writer you’ll be trying to describe the THING all your life: and lucky if, out of a dozen books, one or two sentences, just for a moment, come near to getting it across. -CS Lewis, Letters

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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…the judge cannot be one of the parties judged; or, if he is, the decision is worthless and there is no ground for placing the preservation of the species above self-preservation or sexual appetite. -CS Lewis, The Way

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Sanity does not consist in seeing things; madmen see things more clearly than other people. Sanity consists in seeing the big things big and the small things small.

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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The first beginning of the winter always excites me; it makes me want adventures. -CS Lewis, Letters

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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To say that the cataract is sublime means saying that our emotion of humility is appropriate or ordinate to the reality, and thus to speak of something else besides the emotion; just as to say that a shoe fits is to speak not only of shoes but of feet. -CS Lewis, Men Without…

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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…we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses. -CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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From the statement about psychological fact ‘I have an impulse to do so and so’ we cannot by any ingenuity derive the practical principle ‘I ought to obey this impulse’. -CS Lewis, The Way

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it. -CS Lewis, Men Without Chests

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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I dare say the saints’ mothers have, in some ways, a rough time! -CS Lewis, Letters

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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[The doctrines of Heaven and hell] are not really removable from the teaching of Christ or of His Church. If we do not believe them, our presence in this church is great tom-foolery. If we do, we must sometime overcome our spiritual prudery and mention them. -CS Lewis, The Weight…

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C.S. Lewis and Beyond @cslewisbeyond

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Man’s conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. -CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man