C. S. Lewis Philosophical Quotes — Page 21

Writer, Scholar

Philosophical

“When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.”

Firsts Perfect Should Have

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Philosophical

“The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.”

Rich Myth Veils

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Philosophical

“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”

Inspirational Becoming

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Philosophical

“All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.”

Names Owners

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Philosophical

“No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.”

Men Believe Animal

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Philosophical

“Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.”

Thinking Reality Feet

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Philosophical

“There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.”

Thinking Earth

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Philosophical

“All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.”

Murder Killing

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Philosophical

“Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.”

Christian Prayer Miracle

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Philosophical

“I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous.”

Has Beens Narrative Miraculous

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Philosophical

“The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.”

People Firsts Numbers

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Philosophical

“Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.”

Men Believe Real

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C. S. Lewis — Philosophical Quotes

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