C. S. Lewis

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many.

There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

So many things--nay every real thing--is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.