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

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

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

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

- 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

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

- Hugh Kingsmill

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

- Hugh Kingsmill

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

- 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…

- Hugh Kingsmill