C. S. Lewis Quotes

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

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• Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Men
  • Character

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Writing
  • View

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Teach

• I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • Black
  • Food

• Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Light
  • Problems
  • Darkness

• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Future

• There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Musicians

• People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Small
  • Ideas

• I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Read
  • Fiction
  • Newspaper

• It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Feeling
  • Universe
  • Thought

• The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

  

  Daniel Pennac
  • School
  • Question
  • Teacher

• If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Church

• Those cameras are not going on the move unless we have a protester. If we had a protester that’s the only time they move because they’re showing something that in their mind is a bad thing, so then they move. But I like that, I’ve always liked my protesters because the cameras show these massive crowds and people say wow, was that a big crowd.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Money

• Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Why
  • Experience
  • True

• If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Thoughts