Quotes by Frye, Northrop

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to an >>

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual i >>

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was alread >>

Quotations about Thoughts and Thinking

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enou >>

If I look confused it is because I am thinking. >>

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a Sy >>

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Frye, Northrop