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

— C. S. Lewis

#devil #education #make #man #more

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#every #form #point #simply #testing

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#christian #eating #go #higher #his

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

— C. S. Lewis

#good #may #most #oppressive #sincerely

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#big enough #book #cup #enough #get

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#dark #eyes #found #just #know

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

#afflictions #anxieties #christ #defect #faith

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

— C. S. Lewis

#cannot #careful #his #man #reading

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#easily #finds #god #i #mortal

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

— C. S. Lewis

#gradual #hell #hell is #milestones #road