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Sound Man

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

- C. S. Lewis

Quote of the Day

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

- William Blake

Other quotes by C. S. Lewis

Achievement Road

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

- C. S. Lewis

Art Man Will

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.

- C. S. Lewis

Time World

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

- C. S. Lewis

Age

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

- C. S. Lewis

Faith People

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.

- C. S. Lewis

Enemies Struggle

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

- C. S. Lewis

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