Lionel Trilling's Profile
Brief about Lionel Trilling: By info that we know Lionel Trilling was born at 1905-07-04. And also Lionel Trilling is American Critic.
Some Lionel Trilling's quotes. Goto "Lionel Trilling's quotation" section for more.Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Tags: Advantage, Oneself, OthersWe 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.
Tags: Heart, Living, StateOur culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
Tags: Act, Culture, TakesIt is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Tags: Art, Life, WillingThe poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Tags: Forget, May, PoetryWe are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
Tags: Health, Idea, SicknessEvery 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.
Tags: End, Legal, SomeoneBeing a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
Tags: Conscious, Walking, WindProbably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Tags: Humor, Impossible, IronyThe poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Tags: Fantasy, Poet, WhileThere is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Tags: Between, Deep, PoliticalThis is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
Tags: Great, Rather, ThinkingWe who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
Tags: Equality, Poor, SenseWhat marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
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