11-30-10
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What is it that I wish to convey? I wish to convey the stream of which Fichte speaks. 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 therefor all I can do is to get nearer and nearer in some asymptotic approach; I do my best, but it is an agonising struggle in which if I am an artist, or indeed for the German romantics any kind of self-conscious thinker, I am engaged for the whole life.
From Isaiah Berlin's "T