Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst… — 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 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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