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 obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.
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…
- 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
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…
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.
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 …
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.…
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development. - Hugh Kingsmill
A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.
Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string. - Hugh Kingsmill
Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.
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