“All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good con...” — T. E. Hulme Quote

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I think one of the fundamental divides between progressivism and conservatism is conceit versus humility.”

“With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.”

“Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit - that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth.”