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False Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...
- The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely…
- True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
- I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish…
- Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a…
- ..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of…
- Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
- [M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think…
- No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all…
- The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made…
- The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate…
- The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman…
- What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in…
More False Quotes
- If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- . . . yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the… — William Shakespeare
- We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,… — Dan Aykroyd
- I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney… — Roseanne Barr
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow
- If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see… — George Polya
- They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine… — Hirohito
- PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the… — Ambrose Bierce