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Thought Provoking Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
- Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists…
- 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 safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
- The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
More Thought Provoking Quotes
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. — Chinua Achebe
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when… — Chinua Achebe
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
- A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
- People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. — Saul Bellow
- Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett
- Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to… — Isaiah Berlin
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. — Ambrose Bierce