“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.Quote by Lionel TrillingTopics: Quotes about Lionel TrillingShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than...#Lionel Trilling
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness,...#Literature
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep...#Lionel Trilling
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of...#Lionel Trilling
