Paul Kingsnorth Quotes

#1. In an almost totally insentient cosmos only human feeling is interesting or relevant to what the soul searches for...suffering is the most expensive of human emotions, but it is the most intense and precious of them, because suffering most efficiently humanizes the unfeeling universe.

Fred Chappell

#2. The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

Paul Kingsnorth

#3. The haters can't see me, the money's in the way like traffic.

Wiz Khalifa

#4. Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to taste innocence again. Looking at sensations freshly without the conceptual overly was very profound.

Ram Dass

#5. If beheading is the medicine of headache, no man can live; why cant you find the real way out?

Oladosu Feyikogbon

#6. Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

Debbie Macomber

#7. Today, the real England sometimes feels like 50 million people driving around a motorway forever.

Paul Kingsnorth

#8. Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don't really have a better idea.

Paul Kingsnorth

#9. I'm increasingly attracted by the idea that there can be at least small pockets where life and character and beauty and meaning continue. If I could help protect one of those from destruction, maybe that would be enough. Maybe it would be more than most people do.

Paul Kingsnorth

#10. We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.

Paul Kingsnorth

#11. It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

Paul Kingsnorth

#12. A case could be made, in fact, that the English were the first victims of the British empire: without their conquest, that empire could not have been built.

Paul Kingsnorth

#13. I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.

Paul Kingsnorth

#14. I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

Nelson DeMille

#15. A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

Gregor Piatigorsky

#16. I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

Paul Kingsnorth

#17. Remembering the fallen was important, but working to protect the living was more so.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do.

Paul Kingsnorth

#19. Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

Paul Kingsnorth

#20. Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

Garry Kasparov

#21. In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

Paul Kingsnorth

#22. However, the big German chemical cartels, I. G. Farben in particular, had harbored their patents; had, in fact, created a world monopoly in plastics, especially in the development of the polyesters. By

Philip K. Dick

#23. The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind turbines and associated access roads, masts, pylons, and wires.

Paul Kingsnorth

#24. In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice, or that test for stress. You'll just ask the program, 'Was he lying? Was he eager to do business with me?' Maybe the computer will be right sixty per cent of the time.

Tyler Cowen

#25. "Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

Paul Kingsnorth

#26. Old things climb out through my mouth and set themselves free in the air. On the high moor there are patterns and in my small mind there are patterns. [...] All the centuries drop away, and I am in the presence of something that does not know time.

Paul Kingsnorth

#27. I don't think anyone ever feels acknowledged enough.

Rick Springfield

#28. I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is absolutely no tendency for rioting and mayhem, and it is extremely civilised.

Richard Dawkins