Quotes by C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
…the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very fe — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sound — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
I was still young and the whole world of beauty was opening before me, my own officious obstructions were often swept as — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizati — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure. — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawless — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it. — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a secon — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years. — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Tea should be taken in solitude. — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Divine punishment are also mercies. — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past. — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for yo — C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life