Class Quote by Lionel Trilling

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

Lionel Trilling

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

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The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes…

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

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A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit…

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

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It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual…

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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all…

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Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on…

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

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“...perhaps we have never been more than vocal and perhaps soon we can hope to be no more than thoughtful...”

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

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Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various…

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