John Cowper PowysOur rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation … ▶352LifeTime
John Cowper PowysA bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. ✨ John Cowper Powys (1938). Enjoyment of… ▶333Reading
John Cowper PowysLove is always in the mood of believing in miracles.377Love
John Cowper PowysOne needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth. ✨ The Meaning of Culture. Book by John Cowper Powys (p. 178), 1929.315HopePhilosophyReading
John Cowper PowysTo a real child anything will serve as a toy. ✨ John Cowper Powys (2013). Autobiography, p.29, Faber & Faber306Reflection
John Cowper PowysTo 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 Shakespeare, of the l… ▶288HumanityLifePhilosophy
John Cowper PowysThe love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways. ✨ The Meaning of Culture. Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 209, 1929.256LovePhilosophyReading
John Cowper PowysWhat is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judged by the number of diseases fr… ▶257HumanityLife
John Cowper PowysAmbition is the grand enemy of all peace. ✨ The Meaning of Culture. Book by John Cowper Powys, 1929.203PhilosophyReading
John Cowper PowysHaving 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 limitations to the happiness we … ▶151HopePoliticsThought
John Cowper PowysIf 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 w… ▶142LifeTimeTruth
John Cowper PowysIt is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual fait… ▶169HopeHumanity
John Cowper PowysEvery day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indigna… ▶1510LifePhilosophyReading
