Clive Staples Lewis Quotes

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

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What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers or should I say nurses will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.

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Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.. It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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Friendship is.. The sort of love one can imagine between angels.

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Why love if losing hurts so much We love to know that we are not alone.

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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.