"Many things, such as loving, going to sleep,……" — C.S. Lewis
"Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them."
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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 Behaving Quotes
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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop…
— Leo Buscaglia
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If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in…
— Nick Cave
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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how…
— Julie Andrews
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always…
— Seneca the Younger
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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in…
— Simone Weil
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If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.
— Pat Buchanan
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving…
— Marquis de Sade
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I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not.…
— Stephen King
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Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according…
— Freeman Dyson
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I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on…
— Brigid Brophy
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