C. S. Lewis Quotes About Greek

• But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reading, Eye, Night

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.141, Cambridge University Press

• To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

  C. S. Lewis

  Rainbow, Greek, Privacy

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, People

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.79, HarperCollins UK

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