C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewiswas a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University, 1925–54, and Cambridge University, 1954–63. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth29 November 1898
CountryIreland
The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.
Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
Nothing is yet in its true form.
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.
It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
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.
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.