"The human mind is generally far more eager……" — C.S. Lewis
"The human mind is generally far more eager to praise or dispraise than it is to describe and define."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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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 Define Quotes
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Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between…
— Erykah Badu
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
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You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of…
— Mario Batali
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The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'.…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
— Michael Bloomberg
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These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the…
— Michael Bloomberg
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How you define a problem shapes how you address it.
— John O. Brennan
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The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that…
— John O. Brennan
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Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as…
— Rita Mae Brown
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Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will,…
— Edward Albee
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent…
— Madeleine Albright
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As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning…
— Julie Burchill
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