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You Cannot Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
- You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.
- You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- You cannot make men good by law.
- You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while…
- It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly…
- A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something…
- Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot…
- If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this…
- You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things…
- You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
- You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind…
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