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T. E. Hulme
T. E. Hulme
English Critic
Born: Sep 16, 1883
Died: Sep 28, 1917
Faithful Long Man Mirror Would-Be You
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Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress. T. E. Hulme
You Man Progress Destruction Will Society Possibilities Individual Oppressive Get Infinite Order Romanticism Then Root Rearrange Reservoir Here Chance
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass. T. E. Hulme
You World Think Distorting Would Born Never Glass Existence Blue Conscious Spectacles
All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves. T. E. Hulme
Good National Ourselves Give Conceit Partisan Histories Us Designed
All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind. T. E. Hulme
Mind Conviction Emotional Motor Conversion Aspects Based Necessarily
No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased. T. E. Hulme
Life History Long Mirror Faithful Must Would Would-Be Selection Biased Inevitably Were Dull Itself Being
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him. T. E. Hulme
Nature Man Animal Extraordinarily Out Constant Only Absolutely Him Limited Got Tradition Fixed Decent Anything Organisation Whose
The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical. T. E. Hulme
Man Possibilities Classical Finite Well Call Him Very Fixed Romantic Regards Which View Full Reservoir Creature

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