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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.

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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.

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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.

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All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: September 16th, 1883

Died: September 28th, 1917

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