"Even in this world of course it is……" — C.S. Lewis

"Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up."

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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
Total war is the most humane in the long run.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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 Childish Quotes

This quote is filed under Childish Quotes, one of 301 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and… — Mikhail Bakunin
At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life… — Drew Barrymore
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and… — Annie Besant
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all.… — Samuel Butler
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Not every age is fit for childish sports. — Plautus
An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been… — Sigmund Freud
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only… — Elizabeth Bowen
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away… — Francis Bacon
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — Henry David Thoreau
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. — Albert Einstein

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