"Unless we insist that politics is imagination and……" — Lionel Trilling

"Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like."

— Lionel Trilling

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36 Quotes by Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him… — Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because… — David Bailey
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction… — J. G. Ballard
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana

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