Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“Mr. Geard was one of those men whose physical phlegm is so thick and deep that it requires a series of material… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“What would ever become of Tilly-Valley's religion in that world, with headlights flashing along cemented highways, and all existence dominated by electricity?… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“though books, as Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are also the resurrection of rebellious, reactionary, fantastical, and wicked spirits!… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily,… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
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… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“There occurred within a causal radius of Brandon Station one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause. In the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
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