There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.Lionel Trilling
A theory of the middle class that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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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.
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Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.
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