"When you meet anything that's going to be……" — C.S. Lewis
"When you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet."
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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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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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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 Eyes Quotes
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
— Victoria Abril
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He…
— Teresa of Avila
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces…
— Teresa of Avila
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which…
— Michele Bachmann
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Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
— Abu Bakr
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