C. S. Lewis Quotes About Common Sense

• For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Cancer, Pride

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

• It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Weed, Cutting

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