C. S. Lewis Philosophical Quotes — Page 25

Writer, Scholar

Philosophical

“The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.”

Mean Trying Giving Money

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Writer, Scholar

Philosophical

“The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.”

Life Can Do Universe

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Philosophical

“Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.”

Reality Religious Reading

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Philosophical

“The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.”

Men War Should Have

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Philosophical

“In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.”

Thinking Reality Pain

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Philosophical

“Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.”

Men Wisdom Turns

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Philosophical

“The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.”

Past Animal Guiding Principles

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Philosophical

“Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.”

Believe Clothes Tunes

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Philosophical

“You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.”

Feelings Religious Doubt

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Philosophical

“Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.”

Enemy Healthy Degrees

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Philosophical

“I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?”

Thinking Eye Order

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Philosophical

“Pilate was merciful till it became risky.”

Merciful Screwtape Letters

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C. S. Lewis — Philosophical Quotes

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