John Cowper Powys Quotes

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• Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
• 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 of…
• Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few…
• Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity…
• 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…
• Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
• Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come…
• The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
• What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a…
• To a real child anything will serve as a toy.
• A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
• Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
• The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly,…
• It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother…
• One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

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