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Experience Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be…
- The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute…
- Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
- If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for…
- Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
- The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization…
- We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like…
- Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
- Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A…
- If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
- Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
- Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend…
- Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first…
- What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes…
- A perfect practice of Christianity would, of course, consist in a perfect imitation of the life of Christ -- I mean, in so far as…
- Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
- What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
- Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
- This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch