Quote by Northrop Frye
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. – Northrop Frye

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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. – Northrop Frye

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. – Allan Bloom

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Culture is one thing and varnish is another. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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