More specifically concerning: T.E. Hulme
Citation (7)
27 April 2003, around 11.06.
T.E. Hulme pontificates…
sic
14 June 2025, around 20.01.
Philosophy is about people in clothes, not about the soul of man. —T.E. Hulme (‘Cinders’ in Speculations, p. 229)
paper tigers
21 June 2025, around 10.22.
For the reading of the dilettante in philosophy, though it may be extensive and enthusiastic, always proceeds along easy slopes. As he only reads what he finds interesting, the only arguments he is likely to come into close contact with—or, at any rate, into that extremely close contact which is necessary for the understanding of […]
bunkum
22 June 2025, around 10.30.
The fundamental error is that of placing Perfection in humanity, thus giving rise to that bastard thing Personality, and all the bunkum that follows from it. —T.E. Hulme (Speculations, p. 33) Novaya Zemlya—we eventually made it that far. Not beyond the point that should have opened onto the passage to Cathay—not that bunkum, the arena […]
imposition
21 July 2025, around 14.58.
But there are acts of a different kind to this when the outer crust gets broken by the inner self breaking through at a moment of tension and you get what may be called a free act. Such acts are of rare occurrence. It is only at moments of tension and crisis that we choose […]
Adversaria (29)
31 August 2025, around 4.08.
‘So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish […]
impatience with the absolute
1 October 2025, around 10.48.
Were all the translations of a poem into all possible languages to add together their various shades of meaning and, correcting each other by a kind of mutual retouching, to give a more and more faithful image of the poem they translate, they would yet never succeed in rendering the inner meaning of the original. […]