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We Call Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a…
- What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
- And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story…
- Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous…
- Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,…
- The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than…
- As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we…
- And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we…
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- For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of… — George Eliot
- In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open… — E. Stanley Jones
- We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. — Niels Bohr
- A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to… — James Buchan