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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic Literature

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood - Lionel Trilling Quotes

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

Lionel Trilling

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief - Lionel Trilling Quotes

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief

Lionel Trilling

Art

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

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

Lionel Trilling

American Critic Class

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 Quotes

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

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing / he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing / he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

Lionel Trilling

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

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

Lionel Trilling

American Critic

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty

Lionel Trilling

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

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

Lionel Trilling

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Lionel Trilling

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic Heart

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us - Lionel Trilling Quotes

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us

Lionel Trilling

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

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

Lionel Trilling

American Critic Books And Reading

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Lionel Trilling

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic Judgment

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic

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

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

Lionel Trilling

American Critic

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic Ideas

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic Humorous

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 Quotes

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

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

Lionel Trilling

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Lionel Trilling

A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.

Lionel Trilling

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. - Lionel Trilling Quotes

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

Lionel Trilling

American Critic

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