Clive Staples Lewis: Frasi in inglese (pagina 12)

Clive Staples Lewis era scrittore e filologo britannico. Frasi in inglese.
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“For what comes is Judgment: happy are those whom it finds labouring in their vocations, whether they were merely going out to feed the pigs or laying good plans to deliver humanity a hundred years hence from some great evil. The curtain has indeed now fallen. Those pigs will never in fact be fed, the great campaign against White Slavery or Governmental Tyranny will never in fact proceed to victory. No matter; you were at your post when the Inspection came.”

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The World's Last Night (1952)

“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro The Four Loves

Introduction
The Four Loves (1960)

“If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro The Problem of Pain

The Problem of Pain (1940)

“But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 132–133
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question "What if this present were the world's last night?"”

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is equally relevant.
The World's Last Night (1952)

“Mr. Neo-Angular – I am doing my duty. My ethics are based on dogma, not on feeling. Vertue – I know that a rule is to be obeyed because it is a rule and not because it appeals to my feelings at the moment.”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 90
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“The process of being brought up, however well it is done, cannot fail to offend.”

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The Funeral of a Great Myth (1967)

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro The Great Divorce

Origine: The Great Divorce (1944–1945), Ch. 11

“The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape?”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro Surprised by Joy

Surprised by Joy (1955)

“Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro A Grief Observed

Origine: A Grief Observed (1961), Ch. 1

“The First [Friend] is the alter ego, the man who first reveals to you that you are not alone in the world by turning out (beyond hope) to share all your most secret delights. There is nothing to be overcome in making him your friend; he and you join like raindrops on a window. But the Second Friend is the man who disagrees with you about everything… Of course he shares your interests; otherwise he would not become your friend at all. But he has approached them all at a different angle. he has read all the right books but has got the wrong thing out of every one… How can he be so nearly right, and yet, invariably, just not right? He is as fascinating (and infuriating) as a woman.”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro Surprised by Joy

Surprised by Joy (1955)

“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro The Abolition of Man

The Abolition of Man (1943)

“The Guide sang: Nearly they stood who fall; Themselves as they look back See always in the track The one false step, where all Even yet, by lightest swerve Of foot not yet enslaved, By smallest tremor of the smallest nerve, Might have been saved. Nearly they fell who stand, And with cold after fear Look back to mark how near They grazed the Siren’s land, Wondering that subtle fate, By threads so spidery fine, The choice of ways so small, the event so great, Should thus entwine. Therefore oh, man, have fear Lest oldest fears be true, Lest thou too far pursue The road that seems so clear, And step, secure, a hair-breadth bourne, Which, being once crossed forever unawares, Denies return.”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 181
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

“We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may 'conquer' them.”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro The Abolition of Man

The Abolition of Man (1943)

“This is where dreams—dreams, do you understand—come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.”

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Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952), Ch. 12: The Dark Island
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)

“The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro Mere Christianity

Book IV, Chapter 8, "Is Christianity Hard or Easy?"
Mere Christianity (1952)

“"The cardinal difficulty," said MacPhee, "in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work, one will say to the other, 'Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for this is, 'Put that in the other one in there.' And then if you ask them, 'in where?' they say, 'in there, of course.'”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro That Hideous Strength

There is consequently a phatic hiatus."
Origine: That Hideous Strength (1945), Ch. 8 : Moonlight at Belbury, section 2

“When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.”

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Clive Staples Lewis libro Mere Christianity

Preface
Mere Christianity (1952)