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Llewelyn Powys Quotes

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

Llewelyn Powys
Good Night, Sight, Sky
Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”

The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.

Llewelyn Powys
Common Sense, Needs, World
Llewelyn Powys (1935). “Damnable Opinions”

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

Llewelyn Powys
Doubt, Ears, Half

The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.

Llewelyn Powys
Rain, Fall, Compassion
Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”

A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

Llewelyn Powys
Wise, Nature, Men

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