4 Posts found for Author: C.S. Lewis

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Author: C.S. Lewis | Source: Farnam Street | Subject: Personal Improvement

We don’t know our true values until they’re tested. C.S. Lewis wrote, “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” We don’t know if we’re actually honest until we tell the truth when the truth will hurt us.

Authors: C.S. Lewis, David French | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Truth | Right | Wrong

In 1944, best-selling author and scholar C.S. Lewis delivered the Memorial Lecture entitled, The Inner Ring, at Kings College in London. His speech focused on the innate human desire to belong and the extent to which we will strive to be included, even in groups that don’t serve our highest good. Lewis warned that our desire to belong could unwittingly lead us to actions that … [ Read more ]

Authors: Alaina Love, C.S. Lewis | Source: SmartBrief | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior, Sociology | Anthropology

“The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.” – Simone Weil

Nowhere do we muddle these two notions more liberally than in our treatment of democracy and its foundational principle of equality — a basic right to be conferred … [ Read more ]

Authors: C.S. Lewis, Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) (November 29, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy