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Written by B.J. Murrey
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 11:13 |
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I find this quite profound, and inspiring. Are you a tiger? or a sheep? Are you a romantic? or merely an observer? The History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell - Introduction. Page xxii
"The romantic movement, in art, in literature, and in politics, is bound up with this subjective way of judging men, not as members of a community, but as aesthetically delightful objects of contemplation. Tigers are more beautiful than sheep, but we prefer them behind bars. The typical romantic removes the bars and enjoys the magnificent leaps with which the tiger annihilates the sheep. He exhorts men to imagine themselves tigers, and when he succeeds the results are not wholly pleasant."
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