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Letter "C" » C.S. Lewis Quotes
«Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!»
«Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
heals, individuality, literary, privilege, undermined, undermines, undermining, wound
«Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Art,
Friends,
Friendship,
Survival
| Keywords:
survival, unnecessary
«How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.»
«We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
alleviate, alleviated, alleviates, banish, banishes, banishing, frequent, frequented, frequenting, frequents, knight, knighted, outlaw, outlawed, outlawing, outlaws, peasant, scheme, The knight, The Knights, The Outlaw, The Suffering
«But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves»
«The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
event, fundamental, fundamental law, Fundamental Laws, in the long run, long run, statements, The Long Run
«Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.»
«We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
contempt, give thanks, humility, IS IS, thanks
«We read to know we are not alone.»
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