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Bad Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the…
- Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
- If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
- Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only…
- We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility,…
- It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
- You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
- To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to…
- Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent.…
- If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why,…
- One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to…
- Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what…
- We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
- Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
- We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for…
- A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and…
- What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of…
- You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while…
- Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and…
- The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial…
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- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson