Eden Phillpotts Quotes

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (A Shadow Passes)

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. —Eden Phillpotts Just

You are but a tiny cluster upon the vines of heaven, where the grapes are worlds; yet you hold the power to ripen your bitter berries and add to the eternal vintage of cosmic sweetness if so you will.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts ‘A Shadow Passes’ (1919)

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

The world is full of magical things waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960) NOVELIST AND POET

To make the State your god is to worship an idol, for the State is a man-made creation arising naturally out of tribal communion; but the soul, if such there be, is a god-made miracle and above all national or patriotic standards – the supreme and eternal reality.

Read wisely for a good book is a faithful friend.

A Socialist State demands precisely the same human symbols as that of Fascist or Nazi, and the same surrender of human liberties if it is to succeed.

El sentido común es algo tan raro que su aplicación asombra al mundo, y quienes tienen la habilidad de emplearlo son declarados genios. El genio es, para decir la verdad, un derivado del sentido común.

If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace, perceiving that further ostentatious preparations for war were idle.

Nine-nine of every hundred among you probably desire peace, while the balance may hold war a condition to be preferred; but what can be the mental norm of statesmanship where such a minority conquer the peace-lovers?

Why are you all wasting human labour and the world’s wealth in building machinery to commit mass murder – creatures that for half a million years and more have been endowed with reason – conscious beings who discovered a better way long centuries ago?

In the marshes the buckbean has lifted its feathery mist of flower spikes above the bed of trefoil leaves. The fimbriated flowers are a miracle of workmanship and every blossom exhibits an exquisite disorder of ragged petals finer than lace. But one needs a lens to judge of their beauty: it lies hidden from the power of our eyes, and menyanthes must have bloomed and passed a million times before there came any to perceive and salute her loveliness. The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The only shadow thrown by a devoted friendship, Brendon, is the knowledge that it must some day come to an end....Yet who would deny himself the glory of friendship, before the menace that it must sooner or later finish? A close amity and understanding, a discovery of kindred spirits, is the most precious experiences within the reach of mankind.

As the English writer Eden Phillpotts once wrote, “The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” Wonders never cease, as long as we are willing to look for them.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” —Eden Phillpotts

You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution; you have not kept faith with yourselves; you have not kept faith with your own prophets and seers.