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Lionel Trilling

American Critic

Born: Jul 4, 1905

Died: Nov 5, 1975

Art Culture Every Immature Poet Sense

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

Others Oneself Advantage Make Misunderstanding Understood Where Helpless Serve

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. Lionel Trilling

Environmental Art Culture Liberate Tyranny Independence Thought Perception Judgment Sense Individual Primary Beyond Him Permit His Autonomy Stand Function

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

Impossible Humor Weapon More Generate Than Revolutionary Irony Little Ever

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. Lionel Trilling

Great Thinking Rather Ideas Concerned Than Vice

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. Lionel Trilling

Health Sickness Idea Implies Ill Even Universal

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