A Philosophy of Solitude Quotes

“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.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Philosophy of Solitude

“It is by a process of simplification carried constantly further and further that happiness is won.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Philosophy of Solitude

“Instead of pausing in our multifarious activities, instead of putting aside our laborious quests, we are being perpetually fooled into thinking that happiness is to be reached in the same way as pleasure is, by the possession of something.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Philosophy of Solitude

“This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness.”
― John Cowper Powys, A Philosophy of Solitude