C. S. Lewis Philosophical Quotes — Page 23

C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Philosophical

“Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.”

Wonderful Abnormal Norm

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Philosophical

“Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.”

Strong Sweet Ambition

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Philosophical

“See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.”

Judging Bears

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Philosophical

“If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now”

Ifs

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Philosophical

“Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.”

Heart Sleep Dragons

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Philosophical

“It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.”

Believe Mind Miracle

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Philosophical

“The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.”

Heaven Flower Roots

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Philosophical

“The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.”

Art Mother Lust

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Philosophical

“You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.”

Dream Love Business

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Philosophical

“They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?”

Tears Coward Eagles

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Philosophical

“I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it.”

Girl Kings Sorry

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Philosophical

“...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.”

Names Rights Punishment

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