"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half……" — C.S. Lewis
"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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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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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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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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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 Amphibians Quotes
This quote is filed under Amphibians Quotes,
one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.
— Gottfried Leibniz
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We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans…
— Murray Bookchin
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We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed…
— Loren Eiseley
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This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in…
— John Grant
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The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the 'third' eye. Just like…
— Rick Strassman
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Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and…
— Aldous Huxley
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[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world,…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.…
— C.S. Lewis
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Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness…
— Loren Eiseley
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The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it,…
— Gregory David Roberts
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