"We have failed to practise ourselves the kind……" — C.S. Lewis
"We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site.
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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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More Behaviour Quotes
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one of 399 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.
— Amy Adams
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There's no map to human behaviour.
— Bjork
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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping…
— Julie Burchill
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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities,…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
— Bill Bryson
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I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.
— Mariah Carey
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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
— Deepak Chopra
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be…
— Emile Durkheim
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On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak…
— David Lack
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Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself…
— Unknown Author
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Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game…
— A. P. Herbert
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When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises…
— Simon Mainwaring
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