"This is the great vice of academicism, that……" — Lionel Trilling
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
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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…
- Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
- In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
- Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas…
- What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
- Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
- The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
- Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
- There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
- Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
- If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the…
- At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it…
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