C. S. Lewis Quotes

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

I'm not very wise to many things.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

When the terrain differs from the map, you have to go with the terrain.

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

If you think two steps ahead, you forget what's important in the now.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course."

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.

sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know.

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.

A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch,— This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.