There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and,… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
“Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.” — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
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