Quote by Lionel Trilling
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpl

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

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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. – Lionel Trilling

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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. – Lionel Trilling

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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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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer

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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. – Mark Twain

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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. – George Allen

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