C. S. Lewis Quotes

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

Light knows when you're looking at it.

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Boss: I just heard that light travels faster than sound. I'm wondering if I should shout when I speak, just so my lips appear to sync-up with my words.

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it becomes a revelation in itself.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they sent one of their members to go and check on it. The scouting moth circled the candle several times and came back with a description: The light was bright. Then a second moth went to examine it. He, too, came back with an observation: The light was hot. Finally a third moth volunteered to go. When he approached the candle he didn't stop like his friends had done, but flew straight into the flame. He was consumed there and then, and only he understood the nature of the light.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.