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They only come into being when the causes and conditions are correct. Once they come into being, they start disintegrating and eventually change. For example, a car comes into being when all the right parts are assembled. Once it has been
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“Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think once again of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the ‘right’ notes and the ‘wrong’ ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“mere conventions which might have been different—we learn to keep to the left of the road, but it might just as”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.”
― Wherever You Go, There You Are
― Wherever You Go, There You Are
“There are two reasons for saying it belongs to the same class as mathematics. The first is, as I said in the first chapter, that though there are differences between the moral ideas of one time or country and those of another,”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“When two Christians of different denominations start arguing, it is usually not long before one asks whether such-and-such a point ‘really matters’ and the other replies: ‘Matter? Why, it’s absolutely essential.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
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