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Men 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.
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the…
- Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
- You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
- Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part,…
- Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And…
- 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…
- [the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the…
- 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…
- We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and…
- 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.
- All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
- 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…
More Men 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
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle