Quote by Lionel Trilling
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of st

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

Other quotes by Lionel Trilling

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

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Obscurity
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. – Lionel Trilling

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Imagination
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling

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Humor
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Other Quotes from
Paradise, Utopia
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A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. – Ernest Hemingway

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. – Lucretius

A fools paradise is a wise mans hell! – Thomas Fuller

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. – Jean Rostand

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Ive heard that, but since Im computer illiterate I dont know how it all works. But since Im on Prodigy tonight, Im learning a lot through my typist, Peter. – Bobby Sherman

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Learning

Marrying a man is like buying something youve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesnt always go with everything else in the house. – Jean Kerr

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Home

Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. “Do you believe there is a devil?” asked one. “No,” said the other promptly. “It’s like Santa Claus: it’s your father.” – Nebelspalter (Zurich, Switzerland), quoted in The Literary Digest, Vol.106, 1930

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Fathers

I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home. – W. C. Fields

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