"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which……" — C.S. Lewis
"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself"
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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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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
— Francis of Assisi
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O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in…
— Rabia Basri
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Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has…
— George Washington
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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?
— Antonin Scalia
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step…
— Mark Twain
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty…
— Lord Acton
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The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of…
— Roderick Murchison
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Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
— Susan Sontag
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No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude…
— Peter Singer
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