C. S. Lewis Quotes About Wisdom
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The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
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We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
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Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
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Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
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I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!
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The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
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Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
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Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
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The absent are easily refuted.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
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You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.
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In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
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If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
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Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
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Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
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If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
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Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
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