C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), or Jack Lewis as he preferred to be called, was British professor, writer and undoubtedly one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century. During his lifetime he wrote more than 30 books that attracted an army of readers across the globe. Some of his most distinguished accomplishments include works such as Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, as well as The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series that have sold in more than 100 million copies across the globe and retained its international popularity over the decades.

If you loved books by C.S. Lewis, especially the stories about lion Aslan and two siblings in Narnia, there is no doubt you will enjoy reading the inspirational quotes by their author. We bring you some of his best quotes from his most famous works, as well as our favorites that we like to read and think about on numerous occasions.

1. ON people

2. ON HAPPINESS

3. ON future

4. ON CHASING YOUR DREAMS

5. ON ORIGINALITY

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ― C.S. Lewis

6. ON READING

7 . ON LOVE

8. ON humility

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. ― C.S. Lewis

9. ON FRIENDSHIP

10. ON INTEGRITY

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. ― C.S. Lewis

11. ON LIFE’S PLEASURES

12. ON CHRISTIANITY AND FAITH

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. ― C.S. Lewis

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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ― C.S. Lewis

13. ON EXPERIENCE

14. ON EDUCATION

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ― C.S. Lewis

15. ON HARDSHIP

16. ON COURAGE

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ― C.S. Lewis

17. ON WRITING

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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. – C.S. Lewis

18. ON HUMAN RACE

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ― C.S. Lewis

19. ON WORDS

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. ― C.S. Lewis

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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them. ― C.S. Lewis