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One 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…
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be…
- 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…
- I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
- How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
- He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
- Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it…
- Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...
- I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than…
- If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
- Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature…
- No one can teach riding so well as a horse.
- And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this…
- I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.
- One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
- If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for…
- 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…
- If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is…
- The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt