“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
Lewis wrote The Four Loves as a meditation on what love actually is — distinguishing affection, friendship, romantic love, and charity. This line about friendship is one of his most quoted, and it is worth sitting with the argument: friendship has no survival value.
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