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Mind Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
- It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come…
- 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…
- When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you…
- The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define.
- The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.
- Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter…
- When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
- We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. No belief will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.
- Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
- If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I…
- The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading…
- If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That…
- We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It…
- We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for…
- You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while…
- Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of…
- It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
- I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is…
- Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to…
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle