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John Cowper Powys

Data di nascita: 8. Ottobre 1872
Data di morte: 17. Giugno 1963

John Cowper Powys è stato uno scrittore britannico.

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docente, scrittore, religioso (prete anglicano)

Frasi John Cowper Powys

„Wuthering Heights è un grande libro, non soltanto perché le passioni vi sono intense, ma anche perché queste passioni recano la grave impronta della memoria, torva e tragica, di tutti coloro che, durante le generazioni, hanno abitato gli stessi luoghi ed hanno portato il pesante fardello delle sofferenze delle morti. È un grande libro perché il romanticismo vi emerge in spazi di una immensità serena e si manifesta in vaste forme primitive e grandiose, sdegnose di ogni ornamento frivolo.“

— John Cowper Powys
citato in Emily Brontë – Cime tempestose – Sinossi e commenti http://lafrusta.homestead.com/rec_bronte1.html, lafrusta

Memoria, Passione, Sofferenza

„One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.“

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„We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.“

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Context: Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond it. Not the wretchedest human being but has his share in the creative energy that builds the world. We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials. p. 222

„The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness.“

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Context: This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness. Chapter I

„Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.“

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Context: The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles. p. 170

„We philosophize for the same reason that we move and speak and laugh and eat and love. In other words, we philosophize because man is a philosophical animal.… We may be as sceptical as we please. Our very scepticism is the confession of an implicit philosophy.“

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Context: My answer to the question "Why do we philosophize?" is as follows. We philosophize for the same reason that we move and speak and laugh and eat and love. In other words, we philosophize because man is a philosophical animal.… We may be as sceptical as we please. Our very scepticism is the confession of an implicit philosophy. Chapter I

„Even the most purely rational minds who find the universe in "pure thought" are driven against their rational will to visualize this "pure thought" and to give it body and form and shape and movement.“

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Context: One of the curious psychological facts, in connection with the various ways in which various minds function, is the fact that when in these days we seek to visualize, in some pictorial manner, our ultimate view of life, the images which are called up are geometrical or chemical rather than anthropomorphic. It is probable that even the most rational and logical among us as soon as he begins to philosophize at all is compelled by the necessity of things to form in the mind some vague pictorial representation answering to his conception of the universe. Most minds see the universe of their mental conception as something quite different from the actual stellar universe upon which we all gaze. Even the most purely rational minds who find the universe in "pure thought" are driven against their rational will to visualize this "pure thought" and to give it body and form and shape and movement. Chapter I

„It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature.“

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— John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance
Context: 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. p. 178

„Man is the animal who weeps and laughs — and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back — in a book.“

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— John Cowper Powys
The Pleasures of Literature (1938), p. 17

„"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.“

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p. 134

„The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.“

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pp. 27-28

„One always feels that a merely educated man holds his philosophical views as if they were so many pennies in his pocket. They are separate from his life. Whereas with a cultured man there is no gap or lacuna between his opinions and his life. Both are dominated by the same organic, inevitable fatality. They are what he is.“

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p. 19

„Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.“

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p. 140

„The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.“

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p. 209

„No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.“

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p. 175

„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 rather than contemplation is the object of life.“

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— John Cowper Powys
In Defence of Sensuality (1930), p. 136

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Frasi John Cowper Powys

„One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.“

„We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.“

„The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness.“

„Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.“

„We philosophize for the same reason that we move and speak and laugh and eat and love. In other words, we philosophize because man is a philosophical animal.… We may be as sceptical as we please. Our very scepticism is the confession of an implicit philosophy.“

„Even the most purely rational minds who find the universe in "pure thought" are driven against their rational will to visualize this "pure thought" and to give it body and form and shape and movement.“

„It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature.“

„Man is the animal who weeps and laughs — and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back — in a book.“

„"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.“

„The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.“

„Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.“

„The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.“

„No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.“

„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 rather than contemplation is the object of life.“

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Ernest Hemingway131

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Peter Ackroyd2

Tom Hodgkinson1

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David Lane5

Michael Breen3