Taste Quotes by C. S. Lewis

11 Taste quotes by C. S. Lewis

Lewis’s short statements on taste blend imagination with ethical nuance. Eleven compact thoughts give a thoughtful look at how preferences reflect character.

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Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs…

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Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

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When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

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For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all…

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A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one.…

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We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret…

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In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at,…

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The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to…

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When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of…

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Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or…

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It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,…

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“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…

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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

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If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

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The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

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