- Visit Dr. Mardy's iWise Blog

View.

View.

Tweet : Yes | No

View.

Tweet : Yes | No

CATEGORIES

play video

Quote

Follow

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 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. # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Tweet

gift

Map

email

download

bookmark

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Hugh Kingsmill quote-There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there...

Wisdom feed seeded by this quote

Be First To

Thomas Hobbes : " Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure. " # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

William Wordsworth : " What is a Poet?...He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them. " # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

4 tweets

Joseph Addison : " Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. " # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

1 tweets

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : " I am by the law of my nature a reasoner. A person who should suppose I meant by that word, an arguer, would not only not understand me, but would understand the contrary of my meaning. I can take no interest whatever in hearing or saying any thing merely as a fact — merely as having happened. It must refer to something within me before I can regard it with any curiosity or care. My mind is always energic — I don't mean energetic; I require in every thing what, for lack of another word, I may call propriety, — that is, a reason why the thing is at all, and why it is there or then rather than elsewhere or at another time. " # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Alexander McCall Smith : " It's like people inviting you to come along to a church service or an amateur orchestra. They're hoping that you'll join. People are recruiters at heart, you know. It makes them feel more comfortable to see the ranks of their particular enthusiasm swelling. " # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

13 tweets

Galileo Galilei : " I cannot without great wonder, nay more, disbelief, hear it being attributed to natural bodies as a great honor and perfection that they are impassable, immutable, inalterable, etc.: as conversely, I hear it esteemed a great imperfection to be alterable, generable, and mutable. It is my opinion that the earth is very noble and admirable by reason of the many and different alterations, mutations, and generations which incessantly occur in it. And if, without being subject to any alteration, it had been one great heap of sand, or a mass of jade, or if, since the time of the deluge, the waters freezing which covered it, it had continued an immense globe of crystal, wherein nothing had ever grown, altered, or changed, I should have esteemed it a wretched lump of no benefit to the Universe, a mass of idleness, and in a word superfluous, exactly as if it had never been in Nature. The difference for me would be the same as between a living and a dead creature. I say the same concerning the Moon, Jupiter, and all the other globes of the Universe. The more I delve into the consideration of the vanity of popular discourses, the more empty and simple I find them. What greater folly can be imagined than to call gems, silver, and gold noble, and earth and dirt base? For do not these persons consider that if there were as great a scarcity of earth as there is of jewels and precious metals, there would be no king who would not gladly give a heap of diamonds and rubies and many ingots of gold to purchase only so much earth as would suffice to plant a jessamine in a little pot or to set a tangerine in it, that he might see it sprout, grow up, and bring forth such goodly leaves, fragrant flowers, and delicate fruit? It is scarcity and plenty that makes things esteemed and despised by the vulgar, who will say that there is a most beautiful diamond, for it resembles a clear water, and yet would not part from it for ten tons of water. These men who so extol incorruptibility, inalterability, and so on, speak thus, I believe, out of the great desire they have to live long and for fear of death, not considering that, if men had been immortal, they would not have come into the world. These people deserve to meet with a Medusa's head that would transform them into statues of diamond and jade, that so they might become more perfect than they are. " # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Taylor Jeremy : " Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit. " # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Thomas Hobbes : " Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. " # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

75 tweets

Albert Einstein : " We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. " # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

6 tweets

Socrates : " All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. " # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download · · Bookmark · Source

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Hugh Kingsmill Wisdom feed

Be First To

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 obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world." # Vision # Fear # Success

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Hugh Kingsmill: " What, still alive at twenty-two, A clean upstanding chap like you?" # Broadway

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Hugh Kingsmill: " Like enough, you won't be glad, When they come to hang you, lad: But bacon's not the only thing That's cured by hanging from a string." # Libraries # Death and Dying # Friends and Friendship

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Hugh Kingsmill: " 'Tis Summer Time on Bredon, And now the farmers swear: The cattle rise and listen In valleys far and near, And blush at what they hear. But when the mists in autumn On Bredon top are thick, And happy hymns of farmers Go up from fold and rick, The cattle then are sick." # Poverty and The Poor # Farming and Farmers # Happiness

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Hugh Kingsmill: " Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and that no one is alive." # Society # Relationships # Life and Living

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

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 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." # Academia # Happiness # Change

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Hugh Kingsmill: " Every false philosophy is an imagination of a world propitious to irrational demands and unregulated desires. The false philosopher's dream infects someone in closer touch than himself with everyday experience, this agent of his desire seeks to translate the dream into reality, and disaster follows. It is the Cinderella story in actual life. Rousseau was Robespierre's fairy godmother, Karl Marx was Lenin's, Nietzsche was Hitler's." # Doctrine # Philosophers and Philosophy # Love

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

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 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." # Opinions # Enthusiasm # Curiosity

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Hugh Kingsmill: " Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues." # Charity # Sin # Success

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper

Be First To

Hugh Kingsmill: " 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." # Writers and Writing # Love # Books - Reading

Gift it . Facebook · Email · Download . · Bookmark · Source ·

Powerpoint Wallpaper