“Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.” ChildrenHardReasonCultureJudgingExerciseAdultsCoreReservesSooner Or LaterStubbornUrgency Author:Lionel Trilling
“Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!” LifeMeanReasonHateCoursesToo MuchReaderSightOneselfDislikeBetrayNever QuitDiariesAmbiguityNotebookHandwriting Author:Lionel Trilling
“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.” IdeasReasonCertainStrongUnderstandingClearEmotionalProductsHabitConsequenceSafetyVariousIdeologyTiesRitualFormulasVery StrongActuality Book:The Liberal Imagination Source: The Liberal Imagination
“Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader” ReasonReaderJournalismAmbiguityNotebook Author:Lionel Trilling
