C. S. Lewis Quotes

The extraordinary's the norm.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

I am not a normal man.

One man’s oddball is another man’s square.

People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't know any different. I grew up in a very tall house, so I wasn't an anomaly there.

I guess you have to be on the edge of the normal human condition to be exceptional.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

Well Mike, I'm abnormal.

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.

I don't think anyone's normal.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

Normal is all relative.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.