“It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.” IfsOne ThingErrorsMetaphorAcceptedStatementsLatterAbsurdityLiteralAllegory Book:Matthew Arnold Source: Matthew Arnold
“We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.” IfsMindDoeArtReadingMistakeVirtueJudgingDemandPerceptionErrorsCriticsWorth Reading Author:Lionel Trilling
“If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.” IfsDoeArtistVirtueBourgeoisBourgeoisiePhilistines Author:Lionel Trilling
