"The only people who hate escapism are jailers." — C.S. Lewis
"The only people who hate escapism are jailers."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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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 mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to…
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy,…
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It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but…
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The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
— Thucydides
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Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed…
— Vaclav Klaus
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I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear…
— Michael Jackson
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I’m just a person who wants to be honest and do good, make people happy and give them the greatest…
— Michael Jackson
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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
— Piers Anthony
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think,…
— Sienna Miller
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I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while
— Jeri Ryan
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