"A primary function of art andthought is to……" — Lionel Trilling
"A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond itin an autonomy of perceptionand judgment."
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Lionel Trilling
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36 Quotes by Lionel Trilling
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
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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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In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
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Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas…
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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
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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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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
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If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the…
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At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it…
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