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> [If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/if-by-the-time-we-re-sixty-we-haven-t-learned-what-a-knot-of-paradox/)

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## More by John Cowper Powys

> [“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/it-always-gave-wolf-a-peculiar-thrill-thus-to-tighten-his-grip-upon/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [“though books, as Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are also the resurrection of rebellious, reactionary, fantastical, and wicked spirits!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/though-books-as-milton-says-may-be-the-embalming-of-mighty-spirits/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/let-none-count-themselves-wise-who-have-not-with-the-nerves-of-their/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [“Life is short and the number of books is appalling.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/life-is-short-and-the-number-of-books-is-appalling/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/the-mistake-we-make-is-to-turn-upon-our-past-with-angry-wholesale/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/our-rulers-at-the-present-day-with-their-machines-and-their-preachers/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/every-day-that-we-allow-ourselves-to-take-things-for-granted-every/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/to-read-great-books-does-not-mean-one-becomes-bookish-it-means-that/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/the-permanent-mental-attitude-which-the-sensitive-intelligence/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/the-more-money-you-give-to-people-the-better-and-the-less-advice/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/it-is-that-cricket-field-that-in-all-the-sharp-and-bitter-moments-of/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [“There occurred within a causal radius of Brandon Station one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause. In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/there-occurred-within-a-causal-radius-of-brandon-station-one-of-those/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/most-of-the-pathetic-scenes-in-almost-everybody-s-life-are-scenes/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> [The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/the-love-that-interferes-and-knows-not-how-to-leave-alone-is-a-love/)

[John Cowper Powys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cowper-powys/)

> ["The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cowper-powys/the-meaning-of-culture-is-nothing-less-than-the-conduct-of-life/)

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