To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for …

C. S. Lewis
1624 citations
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2005). A Preface to Paradise Lost, p.9, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Thought
22

More Author Quotes

Hatred obscures all distinctions. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to k … ▶
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2013). The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen, p.50, Harper Colli … ▶
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endles … ▶
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in h … ▶

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2005). A Preface to Paradise Lost, p.9, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes