Quotes from Mark Rowlands

A hole is defined by its edges, and these are not part of the hole. So a hole can exist only if there is something that is not a hole.

Running, in other words, removed an important constraint on our development as a species.

The meaning of life — that is something for a simpler time.

Nietzsche tells us: be strong. What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Running, I shall argue, is a way of understanding what is important or valuable in life.

On the long run, there is an experience of freedom, of a certain sort — the freedom of spending time with the mind.

Pheidippides ran twenty-six miles from Marathon to Athens with news of the Greek victory.

The place that gave us the marathon also gave us philosophy. That place was the city-state of Athens in the fourth and fifth centuries BCE.