"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a……" — C.S. Lewis
"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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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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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 Ambivalent Quotes
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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is…
— Primo Levi
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You hated him in the movies! Now you're ambivalent.
— Unknown Author
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Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.
— Keith Ablow
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America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Real love isn't ever ambivalent,
— Tony Kushner
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The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up…
— Rene Konig
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Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt,…
— Eric Fischl
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Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do…
— Robert Pozen
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When asked at age 7 whether he had ambivalent feelings about girls. No, I hate 'em!
— Unknown Author
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The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.
— Ralph Regula
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The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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