C. S. Lewis Should Quotations

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.

Why should your heart not dance?

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.

It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.