C. S. Lewis

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”

“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”

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

“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.”

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

“There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.”

“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.”

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”

“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.”

“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.”