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annagrac 's review for:
The Pilgrim's Regress
by C.S. Lewis
Thought-provoking as ever, CS Lewis gets to the heart of what looking for meaning in life means, the sacrifices and the joys that finding your way entails and the nature and diversity of distractions you will likely meet before you find it.
The critiques here on Wisdom, Science, Reason, Sensibleness, Enlightenment (1 &2) all hit home. My favourite quote is from a conversation with Mr Sensible:
"Reason! Do you mean the mad woman who goes riding about the country dressed up in armour? […] There is a strange confusion in our language here, for the reasonableness which I commend has no more dangerous enemy than Reason […] Sense is easy, Reason is hard. Sense knows where to stop with gracious inconsistency, but Reason slavishly follows an abstract logic, wither she knows not. The one seeks comfort and finds it, the other seeks truth and is still seeking. [..] She leads us from our true aim - joy, pleasure, ease, content, […] She is a fanatic who never learned from my master the golden mean and, being a mortal, to think mortal thoughts."
The critiques here on Wisdom, Science, Reason, Sensibleness, Enlightenment (1 &2) all hit home. My favourite quote is from a conversation with Mr Sensible:
"Reason! Do you mean the mad woman who goes riding about the country dressed up in armour? […] There is a strange confusion in our language here, for the reasonableness which I commend has no more dangerous enemy than Reason […] Sense is easy, Reason is hard. Sense knows where to stop with gracious inconsistency, but Reason slavishly follows an abstract logic, wither she knows not. The one seeks comfort and finds it, the other seeks truth and is still seeking. [..] She leads us from our true aim - joy, pleasure, ease, content, […] She is a fanatic who never learned from my master the golden mean and, being a mortal, to think mortal thoughts."