C. S. Lewis Quotes

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

Politics isn't that difficult; it is about finding your conscience again. So, just do what is right.

Righteousness is on our side.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.