C. S. Lewis

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

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

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

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. ”

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

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

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. ”

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ”

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ”

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. ”