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Man Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is…
- Man must endure his going hence.
- Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
- A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself…
- A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.
- There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We…
- Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?
- A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are…
- There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material…
- The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that…
- To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity.…
- Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
- Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
- Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given…
- Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
- Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back…
- For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the…
- No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
- God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and…
- The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
- To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
- As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
- Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
- When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle