In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect. — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
“Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he is intrinsically limited, but disciplined by order and tradition to something fairly decent. To the one party man's… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in...He has not created something,he has seen something. — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that)… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all the old… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters. — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images. — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
“Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he is intrinsically… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
