Friday, June 26, 2009

ive found what ive been trying to get across for the past 9 or 10 years...


What is it that I wish to convey?...I wish to convey something immaterial and I have to use material means for it. I have to convey something which is inexpressible and I have to use expression. I have to convey, perhaps, something unconscious and I have to use conscious means. I know in advance that I shall not succeed and cannot succeed, and therefore all I can do is to get nearer and nearer in some asymptotic approach; I do my best, but it is an agonizing struggle in which, if I am…any kind of self-conscious thinker, I am engaged for the whole of my life.

- Isaiah Berlin. The Roots of Romanticism, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999).

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