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Idea Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in…
- The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
- 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…
- A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
- These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought…
- That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.
- I want God, not my idea of God.
- ...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away…
- I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be…
- My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and…
- Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support…
- A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist…
- You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.
- Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't…
- My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A…
- 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…
- Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my…
- The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for…
- Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of…
- Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort…
- You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.
- My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
- A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not…
- We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.
- Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
More Idea Quotes
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden