"The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive……" — C.S. Lewis
"The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end."
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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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I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has…
— David Beckham
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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those…
— David Bohm
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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short…
— Jane Campion
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I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.
— Kelly Clarkson
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in…
— Fiona Apple
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Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment…
— Unknown Author
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Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and…
— Barbara Oakley
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When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our…
— Elizabeth I
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid…
— Martin Gardner
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I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.
— Deepika Padukone
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Well, I used to be a compulsive exerciser, but I'm over that.
— Courtney Thorne Smith
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