Lionel Trilling Quotes
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Lionel Trilling Quotes
- Name:
- Lionel Trilling
- Type:
- Critic
- Nationality:
- American
- Birth day:
- July 4
- Birth year:
- 1905
- 1
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. Lionel Trilling
- 2
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. Lionel Trilling
- 3
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. Lionel Trilling
- 4
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. Lionel Trilling
- 5
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. Lionel Trilling
- 6
The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. Lionel Trilling
- 7
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. Lionel Trilling
- 8
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. Lionel Trilling
- 9
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. Lionel Trilling
- 10
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. Lionel Trilling
- 11
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. Lionel Trilling
- 12
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. Lionel Trilling
- 13
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. Lionel Trilling
- 14
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. Lionel Trilling
- 15
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. Lionel Trilling