borrowed thoughts

" To make realities of our particular feelings and dispositions, to convert our moods into measures of the universe, to believe that, because we want justice or love justice, Nature must necessarily have the same want or the same love, to suppose that because a thing is bad it can be made better without making it worse, these are romantic attitudes, and they define all mind which are incapable of conceiving reality as something outside themselves, infants crying for sublunary moons.
Almos all modern social reform is a romantic concep, and effort to invest reality with our wishes. The degrading concept of the perfectibility of man."

A Educação do Estóico - Barão de Teive