C. S. Lewis Zitate auf Englisch

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

We are what we believe we are.

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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

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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.

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

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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.

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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

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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.

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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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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.

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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

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'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.'

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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

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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.

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

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There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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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.

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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

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Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

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