Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C. S. Lewis Imagination
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis Power
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis Peace
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. C. S. Lewis Nature
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. C. S. Lewis Success
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C. S. Lewis Truth
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. C. S. Lewis Truth
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? C. S. Lewis Happiness
What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. C. S. Lewis God
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis Religion
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? C. S. Lewis God
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis Happiness
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis Happiness
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. C. S. Lewis History
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis Teacher
History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. C. S. Lewis History
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. C. S. Lewis Respect