"The Moral Law tells us the tune we……" — C.S. Lewis
"The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys."
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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 Instinct Quotes
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My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put…
— Russell Baker
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
— Stanley Baldwin
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its…
— Honore de Balzac
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I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw…
— Kim Basinger
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
— Max Beerbohm
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which…
— Max Beerbohm
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and…
— Henri Bergson
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Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I…
— Halle Berry
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Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not…
— Mortimer Adler
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
— Josh Billings
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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.…
— Bono
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