C. S. Lewis — Philosophical Quotes

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C. S. Lewis Quotes

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Philosophical

“Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.”

Men Country Running

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

Philosophical

“In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.”

Facts Favour Insight

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Philosophical

“What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.”

Impossible Explanation

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Philosophical

“Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.”

Heaven Hell

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Philosophical

“For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.”

God Seems Creatures

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Philosophical

“I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.”

Men Two Fall

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Philosophical

“You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.”

Thinking Know Me

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Philosophical

“A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.”

May Desire

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Philosophical

“Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.”

Men Might Cat

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Philosophical

“A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.”

World Creating Machines

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Philosophical

“I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.”

Thinking Important Fundamentals

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Philosophical

“The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.”

Law Time Space

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