Quotes by John Cowper Powys

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 and with art.

Art

Book

Culture

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

Islands

Opiates

Poison

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

Ambition

Enemy

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 between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

Genius

Littles

Worry

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 limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.

Forget Everything

May

Mind

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 of Truth is, we haven’t grown old to much purpose.

Action

Compromise

Purpose

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 of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

Mother

People

Spiritual

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: ‘At least I am not playing cricket!

Bitter

Fields

Giving

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

Animal

Pain

Wise

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

Believe

Love

Miracle

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Aliens

Ambition

Animal

Art

Attitude

Believe

Bitter

Book

Character

Children

Compromise

Contemplation

Creative

Culture

Darkness

Desire

Disregarded

Earth

Enemy

Family

Fields

Forget Everything

Genius

Giving

Islands

Knows

Life And Death

Limitless

Literature

Littles

Love

Machines

May

Mean

Men

Mind

Miracle

Mistake

Money

Mother

Moving

Needs

Opiates

Overcoming

Pain

Past

People

Persons

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Quotes by John Cowper Powys

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 and with art.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

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 between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

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 limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.

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 of Truth is, we haven’t grown old to much purpose.

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 of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: ‘At least I am not playing cricket!

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

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