We who are liberal and progressive know... by Lionel Trilling | We Heart Quotes

Author Being Sense educator American Literature

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

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Legal End

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

Time

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

- Lionel Trilling

Forget May

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

- Lionel Trilling

Humor

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

- Lionel Trilling

Contemplation Will

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

- Lionel Trilling

Fantasy

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

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