Famous Quotes / Lionel Trilling

Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Lionel Trilling: "Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of "ideals," of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax."


Lionel Trilling's Quotations


Quotations about
AbleAbsurdAllowAmuse
AnythingAttainmentCantCompletely
DesiresDevelopEducatingEmotions
FactFairyFlaxGives
HairHavingHeroHimself
HonorHonorableIdealsIdeas
IdentificationLearnMagicalMorality
NovelsPreventPrincessPriori
ProperRightRomanticSense
SolitudeSystemsTalesThing
UsefulVeryWeakWorth
WrongYounger
Quotes by Power Quotations