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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
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
Heart
Cynical
Believe
Living
State
Only
Authoritarian
Form
Utopia
Utopian
Profoundly
Imagine
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
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
Equality
Sense
Every
Liberal
Progressive
Our
Except
Know
Equal
Equals
Being
Poor
Us
Who
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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