Quotes by Trilling, Lionel

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state >>

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually >>

Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few >>

Quotations about Reality

Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It sh >>

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, >>

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in pros >>

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

Trilling, Lionel