"For every one pupil who needs to be……" — C.S. Lewis
"For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."
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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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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation…
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the…
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within…
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful…
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Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their…
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may…
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We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
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To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by…
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What is most important is to go deep into ourselves and discover the loving kindness and compassion of the buddha…
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May all beings everywhere with whom we are inseparably connected, be fulfilled, awakened, liberated and free. May there be peace…
— Surya Das
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The soul is awakened through service.
— Erica Jong
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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded…
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