Detached Quote by Hugh Kingsmill

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

— Hugh Kingsmill

Friends are Gods apology for relations.

— Hugh Kingsmill

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

— Hugh Kingsmill

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

— Hugh Kingsmill

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

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

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

— Hugh Kingsmill

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

— Hugh Kingsmill

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

— Hugh Kingsmill

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

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

Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has…

— Hugh Kingsmill