"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine…" — C.S. Lewis
"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site.
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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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More Admirably Quotes
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on…
— James Boswell
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How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is…
— Albert Einstein
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Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to…
— Murray Rothbard
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It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and…
— H. L. Mencken
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Educating Lawyers succeeds admirably in describing the educational programs at virtually every American law school. The call for the integration…
— Unknown Author
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Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be…
— Allen Lacy
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None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us…
— Steven Saylor
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Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth,…
— Carl E. Olson
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Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures.…
— Cotton Mather
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