Quotes from Mark Kingwell

Anywhere - and, it follows, nowhere - can be a place. As long as we are there, to think and talk, to listen and respond. The world, once conscious of itself in the form of human making, is a vast concert hall. What sounds there is not the divine music of celestial spheres, as the ancient Greek mathematicians believed, but the sound of one human after another issuing the daily plea: to be heard, to be understood, to be accommodated.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

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.