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True Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
- Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one...
- True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
- The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely…
- I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it…
- True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.
- The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
- Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces…
- All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
- All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem…
- True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.
- You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best
- The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even…
- When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that…
- Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a…
- I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.
- Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath…
- It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance…
- What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes…
- Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
- Nothing is yet in its true form.
- The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their…
- [M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think…
- It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
- It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have…
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- I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. — Aaliyah
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood