One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and anything can be… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
“Tendintele autoritate ale conservatorismului trebuie corectate prin mituri ale libertatii, in vreme ce un simt conservator al ordinii trebuie sa tempereze tendintele liberalismului spre… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens. — Northrop Frye Copy Share
