Books Quote by Northrop Frye

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

— Northrop Frye

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the…

— Northrop Frye

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

— Northrop Frye

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

— Northrop Frye

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

— Northrop Frye

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

— Northrop Frye

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…

— Northrop Frye

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

— Northrop Frye

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

— Northrop Frye

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

— Northrop Frye

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the…

— Northrop Frye

“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in…

— Northrop Frye