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“Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.”

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Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling was an influential American literary critic and writer, born on July 4, 1905, and died on November 5, 1975. He was a significant figure in 20th-century American literary criticism, known for his profound thought and sharp insights. more

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“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.”

Ifs Mind Doe Art Reading Mistake Virtue Judging Demand Perception Errors Critics Worth Reading

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.”

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Book:The Liberal Imagination

Source: The Liberal Imagination

“The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.”

States Form Speak Church Silence Authority Elements Logic Raised Architecture Multitudes Majesty Palaces Monument Church And State Cathedrals Dams Shady

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“The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.”

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Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience

“By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated emotion. But I am thinking less of confessional experience, to which one has had to adhere up to now, that of an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, of any confession whatever. This is why I don't like the word mystical.”

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Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience

“Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. ... It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate.”

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Book:Inner Experience

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“Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.”

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Author:Georges Bataille

“The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.”

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Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience

“We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.”

Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience

“I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.”

Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience