"Till that word can be dug out of……" — C.S. Lewis
"Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?"
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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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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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At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go…
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Listen to your customers. Can the sales pitches and the product babble. Let your customer talk and show him that…
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an…
— Lance Morrow
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To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can…
— Thomas Carlyle
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How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor…
— John Keats
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A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy,…
— Christine Schutt
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The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show…
— Gautama Buddha
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Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from…
— Colin Fletcher
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Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long…
— Carl Sandburg
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You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble…
— Fleur Adcock
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To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.
— Oliver Herford
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A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink…
— Gore Vidal
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