“There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.” IdeasPoliticalImaginationClassConnectionsEducated Book:The Liberal Imagination Source: The Liberal Imagination
“It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and particular and insisted on the old one, philosopher, in all its spacious generality: we may suppose that this was his way of saying that he had not over-ridden the limiting conditions of class only to submit to the limitation of a profession.” WayMayScienceNamesClassSpecialConditionsParticularPhilosopherProfessionLimitationSubmitBiographiesPhysicistGeneralitiesNomenclature Book:The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays Source: The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
“The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.” PeopleRealitySeemsDifferencesAbilityClassEffectsPracticalsDesirableAbility To SeeSpecialness Book:The Liberal Imagination Source: The Liberal Imagination
“A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.” ThinkingGovernmentConsciousnessSituationClassGroupsMiddleTheoryShapesRelationFinancialDeterminedMiddle ClassControlledShadeRulingGoverning Author:Lionel Trilling
