C. S. Lewis Quotes About Truth

• 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 twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Truth, Creativity

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.12, Harper Collins

• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

• There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Views, Answers

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Live Life, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Matter, Ifs

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

• Nothing is yet in its true form.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Mystery, Wonder

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Lying, Myth

• The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Truth, Law

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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