Lionel Trilling Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

  Lionel Trilling

  Understanding, Obscurity, Advantage

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.259, New York Review of Books

• Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding.

  Lionel Trilling

  Strong, Emotional, Ideas

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.286, New York Review of Books

• We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.

  Lionel Trilling

  Thinking, Wrath, Hands

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