"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of……" — C.S. Lewis
"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."
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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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My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics.…
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We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing.…
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My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a…
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...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding…
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There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American…
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Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are…
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Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he…
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I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer…
— Aldous Huxley
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It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it…
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Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there…
— William Irwin Thompson
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As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a…
— Charles Francis Richter
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To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept,…
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