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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

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

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It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh

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Paradise, Utopia

The Utopia the bible seems to want would have people hate evil when it is time to hate and suggests that people who turn away from the world to follow His word would in turn be hated and those people who hate them are to be humiliated in the end. – James Dye

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Paradise, Utopia

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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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. – Simone Weil

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As a result of my philosophy, I wasnt even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didnt hate him. I hated what he was doing. – Albert Ellis

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. – Alfred North Whitehead

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