BLACKBURN Quotes

“We thus combine unreasonable optimism about what people might be like, with unreasonable hatred of them when they are not like that (pp269)”
― Simon Blackburn, BLACKBURN:RULING PASSIONS PAPER: A Theory of Practical Reasoning

“... consider the many ways of failing that await the poet who makes his or her own consciousness of emotions into the subject of a poem, instead of the emotion itself.”
― Simon Blackburn, BLACKBURN:RULING PASSIONS PAPER: A Theory of Practical Reasoning