"The only palliative is to keep the clean……" — C.S. Lewis
"The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books."
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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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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You…
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the…
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My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in…
— George H. W. Bush
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And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any…
— Dennis Miller
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun…
— Gillian Flynn
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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm…
— David Hasselhoff
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Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to…
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