Zitat des Tages von T. E. Hulme:
All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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.
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.
