19 Quotations by Lionel Trilling
- 1. A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...

- 2. A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather ...

- 3. Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary inte ...

- 4. Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious eve ...

- 5. Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him ...

- 6. Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecuti ...

- 7. Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

- 8. In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetra ...

- 9. Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, poss ...

- 10. Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect ...

- 11. Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more th ...

- 12. The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularit ...

- 13. The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

- 14. The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is posse ...

- 15. The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

- 16. There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the ...

- 17. We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Ut ...

- 18. Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

- 19. Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

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