C. S. Lewis Quotes About Magic

• Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!

  C. S. Lewis

  Magic

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.67, Harper Collins

• She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Silly, Magic, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

• It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Inspiration, Mean

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.117, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

• For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

• Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

  C. S. Lewis

  Magic, Citing, Narnia

  "Fictional character: Aslan". "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", www.imdb.com. 2005.

• Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Magic, Way

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

• There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

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