29 ordspråk av Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling föddes den 4 juli 1905 och dog den 5 november 1975
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Vi som är frisinnade och framåtsträvande vet att de fattiga är våra jämlikar på alla sätt. Bara det att de inte är våra jämlikar.

Likeverd

Det finns ingen koppling mellan de politiska idéerna hos vår bildade klass och djupa platserna i fantasin.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination

Politikk

Den omogna konstnären imiterar. Mogna konstnärer stjäl.

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

Skrive

Poeten... kan användas som en barometer, men låt oss inte glömma att han även är en del av vädret.

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

Skrive

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood

Forståelse

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief

Art

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

Ungdom

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us

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

Poetry

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.

Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.

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.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

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

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

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