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 of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action.
Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross. - Hugh Kingsmill
Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.
- 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 prese… - 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 prese…
Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived. - Hugh Kingsmill
Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. - Hugh Kingsmill
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.
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 un… - 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 function of un…
Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer. - Hugh Kingsmill
Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do … - Hugh Kingsmill
It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do …
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedie… - 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 in automatic obedie…
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 blown.… - 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 blown.…
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