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Cannot Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not…
- In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us…
- Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable…
- We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is…
- 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…
- Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some…
- The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be…
- It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly…
- Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it…
- A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something…
- Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot…
- Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and…
- I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is…
- The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except…
- I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till…
- He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it…
- 100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.
- Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are…
- He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and…
- And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the…
- By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men…
- Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden