The Pilgrim's Regress Quotes

“You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more than all the land.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“But I must think it is one or the other.'

[Reason]: 'By my father's soul, you must not - until you have some evidence. Can you not remain in doubt?'

[John]: 'I don't know that I have ever tried.'

[Reason]: 'You must learn to, if you are to come far with me. It is not hard to do it. In Eschropolis, indeed, it is impossible, for the people who live there have to give an opinion once a week or once a day, or else Mr. Mammon would soon cut off their food. But out here in the country you can walk all day and all the next day with an unanswered question in your head: you need never speak until you have made up your mind.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“You will find your Island here.
But how can it be here in the middle of the city?
-It needs no place. It is everywhere and nowhere. It refuses entry to none who asks. It is an Island of the Soul.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“Fighting one vice with another is about the most dangerous strategy there is.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“Book Ten; Chapter Six; Ignorantia

"There must be a good side somewhere to this revolution," said Vertue. "It is too solid--it looks too lasting--to be a mere evil. I cannot believe that the Landlord would otherwise allow the whole face of nature and the whole structure of life to be so permanently and radically changed."
The Guide laughed. "You are falling into their own error," he said, "the change is not radical, nor will it be permanent. That idea depends on a curious disease which they have all caught--an inability to disbelieve advertisements. To be sure, if the machines did what they promised, the change would be very deep indeed. Their next war, for example, would change the state of their country from disease to death. They are afraid of this themselves--though most of them are old enough to know by experience that a gun is no more likely than a toothpaste or a cosmetic to do the things its makers say it will do. It is the same with all their machines. Their labour-saving devices multiply drudgery; their aphrodisiacs make them impotent: their amusements bore them: their rapid production of food leaves half of them starving, and their devices for saving time have banished leisure from their country. There will be no radical change. And as for permanence--consider how quickly all machines are broken and obliterated. The black solitudes will some day be green again, and of all cities that I have seen these iron cities will break most suddenly.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“All the furniture of his mind was taken away.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“Hypothesis, my dear young friend, establishes itself by a cumulative process: or, to use popular language, if you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. After”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them—not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

“C'è chi ha ritenuto che tutti questi amori fossero copie del nostro amore per il Signore".
"Ma certamente l'avranno considerato e respinto. Le loro scienza l'hanno confutato".
"Non hanno potuto farlo perché le loro scienze non sono per nulla interessate nelle relazioni generali di questo paese per alcuna cosa che possa trovarsi a oriente o a occidente di esso. Ti diranno sicuramente che le loro ricerche hanno provato che se due cose sono similari, quella bella è sempre la copia di quella brutta. Ma l'unica loro ragione nel fare questa affermazione è che hanno già deciso che la cosa più bella di tutte-cioè a dire il Signore e, se vuoi, le montagne e l'Isola-non sono altro che una copia di questo paese. Hanno la presunzione che le loro ricerche cunducano a quella dottrina; ma in effetti, danno per scontata prima di tutto quella dottrina ed interpretano le loro ricerche a partire da essa".
"Ma hanno delle buone ragioni per ritenerlo".
"Non ne hanno nessuna, perché hanno smesso di dare ascolto alle sole persone che possono dire alcunché sull'argomento".
"Chi sono queste persone?"
"Sono due mie sorelle, più giovani di me, e i loro nomi sono Filosofia e Teologia".
"Sorelle! E chi è vostro padre?"
"Lo saprai più presto di quel che credi".”
― Clive Staples Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

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― Clive Staples Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

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― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress

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― C.S. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress