C. S. Lewis Quotes About Justification

• An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

  C. S. Lewis

  Literature, Causes, Reason

• No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Animal, Men

• It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Men, Virtue

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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