Religion Quotes by Northrop Frye

10 Religion quotes by Northrop Frye

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For a quick peek at Frye’s scholarly take on spirituality, these ten quotes provide a compact overview. They reveal his analytical voice and how he situates religion within literature.

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The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

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Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.

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It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to…

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Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and…

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Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and…

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The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything…

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Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the…

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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its…

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No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become…

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I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of…

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“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible…

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The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death…

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Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

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Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like…

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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…

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One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.

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“Tendintele autoritate ale conservatorismului trebuie corectate prin mituri ale libertatii, in vreme ce un simt conservator al ordinii trebuie sa tempereze tendintele liberalismului spre…

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