C. S. Lewis Philosophical Quotes — Page 22

Writer, Scholar

Philosophical

“Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.”

Energy Sin Holy

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Philosophical

“There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?”

Thinking Men Matter

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Philosophical

“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.”

Book Sea Errors

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Philosophical

“Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.”

Mean Progress Independence

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Philosophical

“Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.”

Men May Opposites

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Philosophical

“The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.”

Men Facts Angel

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Philosophical

“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.”

Long Understanding Victory

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Philosophical

“The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.”

Differences Infinite Away From You

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Philosophical

“All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.”

Real Inspirational Religious

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Philosophical

“The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.”

Inspirational Religious Understanding

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Philosophical

“When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.”

Doctors Catholic Plato

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Philosophical

“It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.”

Men Wisdom Virtue

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C. S. Lewis — Philosophical Quotes

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