"Morality or duty never yet made a..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
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“Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain.”
“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
“Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.”
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“I love the time I spend with you. You make my living worth-while. Why dint I meet you before. I wish I could start my life From the beginning with you because the time I spend with you is never enough. I need you more everyday.”
“Happiness is the most important thing in the world, without it, you live a life of depression.”
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
More on Morality
“Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.”
“I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.”
“The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.”