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Our Own Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.
- We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to…
- Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of…
- Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to…
- ...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It…
- Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need…
- Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date…
- If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can…
- 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…
- In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
- Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable…
- Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age…
- If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it…
- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under…
- Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look…
- The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in…
- God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly…
- 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…
- A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only…
- An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a…
- If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better…
- Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the…
- Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of…
- 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…
- Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences…
More Our Own Quotes
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann