“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
As commonly credited to C.S. Lewis
- Credited to
- C.S. Lewis
- Actually said by
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
Findings
Oft attributed to C.S. Lewis, this is actually from the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, spoken by Abbot Zerchi.
The original
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”