Why You Should Tilt at Windmills (and Other Quixotic Reflections) (excerpt)

It is indeed because of the unpractical nature of practical maxims that they have been so much neglected. You must act in the concrete, you can only maximise in general terms. Then, again, maxims can only appeal to the mind, to the intellect: the motive force of action is the will, the temperament.

movements driven by imaginations as supple as art rather than as stiff as dogma.