November 19, 2008

10 Amazing Quotes by C.S. Lewis

10 Amazing Quotes by C.S. Lewis
  1. Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

  2. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  3. 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.

  4. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  5. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  6. Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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

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

  9. You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

  10. 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.

4 comments:

Mammoth said...

Happy Birthday Princess M!

Princess Mononoke said...

Thank you for remembering Mammoth! I have been on vacation, taking a much needed break and having the time of my life! :)

Now back to reality...

I hope all is well with you and your family. It's time to batten down the hatches.

Mammoth said...

Of course I remembered - an elephant...er...Mammoth NEVER forgets!

I see you just put up some current event & economic posts - will read these when I can find the time (i.e. when the boss isn't looking over my shoulder).

Be well,
-Mammoth

Princess Mononoke said...

LOLOLOL! That was a good one ;) Thanks Mammoth, needed to laugh!

Ditto! Be strong for you and your family. The new little one is counting on you to be strong for her.