C. S. Lewis Quotes

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

I don't think people who are bad people think they're bad people.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents... Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.

We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate over bad situations. Infact, when we look at the Stanford prison studies, that we put good people in an evil place, and we saw who won. Well, the sad message in this, is in this case is the evil place won over the good people.

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

The silence of the good people is more dangerous than the brutality of the bad people

Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.