"Even in literature and art, no man..." - Quote by C S Lewis
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.
More by C S Lewis
“The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.”
“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.”
“Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.”
More on Originality
“It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.”
“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages”
“How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.”