Quotes by Hugh Kingsmill - Page 1

Friends are God's apology for relations.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Friendship
Family
Friends
Apology
Im Sorry
Relations
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Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Bacon
Cured
Hanging
String
The Only Thing
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Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Ideas
Substance
Values
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Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Anger
Society
Alive
Assumption
Alike
Based
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A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Learning
Libertarian
Obscure
Programming
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Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Charity
May
Sin
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The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.
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Accuracy
Mind
Shapes
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A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.
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Development
Perfection
Symptoms
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Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Detached
Egotism
Observers
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Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Dream
Men
Self
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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 than loving mankind.
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Difficult
Income
Mankind
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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. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.
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Leader
Names
Wind
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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.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Soul
Spring
Vision
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Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Men
Love Is
Self
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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, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Imagination
Order
Soul
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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.
Hugh Kingsmill / Writer
Expectations
Perfect
Spring
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