Mark Kingwell

All inquiry, whatever its subject, has as its final object the matter of how to go about living.

Knowingness is murderous of wonder and of insight, and ultimately it does a violent disservice to that which it sought to serve.

Our most basic choice, the one that grounds all the others, is this: Do we attend closely to the business of our choices, or do we flee from them, in arrogance, or fear, or boredom—or some combination of all three? That´s the only ultimate purpose or meaning that we can make sense of. But it´s enough.

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