"We make men without chests and expect from……" — C.S. Lewis
"We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
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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 Chests Quotes
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one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and…
— Martin Luther
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Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give…
— Mike Harding
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Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that…
— Laura Bush
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We changed our rules. If a player does not have some sot of altercation on or off the court once…
— Gregg Popovich
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If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad? Treasure…
— Jack Handey
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Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as…
— Nikolai Gogol
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All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand…
— Sigmund Freud
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The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does…
— H R Giger
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Nine out of ten English chefs have their names on their chests. Who do they think they are? They're dreamers.…
— Marco Pierre White
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We have to be mentally prepared for every team we play. If we play a team who has a big…
— Rajon Rondo
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In my first movie, That Night, with Juliette Lewis, I had a scene with two other girls where we applied…
— Eliza Dushku
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When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British…
— Paul Cornell
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