More From Lionel Trilling
- "Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
- "The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."
- "There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
More In Intelligence
- "I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."― James Whistler
- "Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."― Alfred North Whitehead
- "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."― George Orwell