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Mark Kingwell - From the Ambition category:
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Books category:
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Danger category:
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Desire category:
Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Dreams category:
Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Friendship category:
Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Future category:
- The World We Want...
We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Materials category:
Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Money category:
Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Politics category:
- Spaces And Dreams...
Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Procrastination category:
Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Questions category:
How do we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us? (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Thought category:
Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought. (Mark Kingwell)
Mark Kingwell - From the Tyranny category:
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. (Mark Kingwell)
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