"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or……" — C.S. Lewis
"Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on Lord of the Rings]"
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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 Beauties Quotes
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
— Joseph Addison
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in…
— Daniel Boone
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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in…
— Julie Burchill
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It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our…
— Jimmy Carter
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among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
— Renzo Piano
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Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
— William Shakespeare
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
— Robert Greene
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
— Lord Chesterfield
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In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections,…
— John Owen
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To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and…
— Nhat Hanh
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This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but…
— Rajneesh
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