"They were pretty tired by now of course;……" — C.S. Lewis
"They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I’d call bitterly tired – only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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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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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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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent…
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According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe…
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O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
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The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate…
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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein…
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If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard…
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The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of…
— Philip K. Chapman
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A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart,…
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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting…
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