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

C. S. Lewis English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 – 1963)

" Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. "

C. S. Lewis English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 – 1963)

" No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. "

C. S. Lewis English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 – 1963)

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

C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)

" The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. "

C. S. Lewis English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 – 1963)

" I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen. "

C. S. Lewis English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 – 1963)

" Every poem can be considered in two ways–as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. "

C. S. Lewis, A preface to “Paradise Lost” English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 – 1963)

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

C.S. Lewis

" No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear. "

C. S. Lewis English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 – 1963)

" 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…. "

C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 – 1963)

" Badness is only spoiled goodness. "

C. S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 – 1963)

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