Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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The Final Answer to the Question How to Live
Each age has its own internal ideal, and therefore any form of nostalgic seeking after the past. For example, why cannot we bewe like the greeks? Why cannot we be like the romans? Which is presumably not french political sophers or french painters or french sculptors were saying to themselves in the eightenth century. Each man belongs to the group. He belongs to his business which is being is to speak. The truth as it appears to him is as valid ands the truth as it appearing to others. From this vast variety of colours, a wonderful mosaic can be made. But nobody can see the whole mosaic. Nobody can see all the trees. Only god can
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