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

Other quotes by Lionel Trilling

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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Equality
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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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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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legal
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Obscurity
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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. – Marshall McLuhan

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Obscurity

Obscurity brings safety. – Aesop

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Obscurity

Obscurantism is the academic theorists revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity — a way of proclaiming ones superiority in the face of ones diminished influence. – David Lehman

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Obscurity

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

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Obscurity

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He who eats alone chokes alone. – Proverb

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Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty. – Max Roach

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. – Charlotte Bronte

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