C S Lewis quotes

2018-12-28

C S Lewis is another author whom I greatly admire. His writings span so many different facets of life. If you haven't read his Narnia series of books, then get them now and start reading!
Here are some of his quotes:

• Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
• We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
• Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
• Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
• 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.
• 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.
• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
• 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.
• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
• Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
• Writing about his book 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' (part of the Narnia books): 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'