“There occurred within a causal radius of Brandon Station one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause. In the soul of the great blazing sun there were complicated superhuman vibrations [connected] ... with the feelings… — 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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