Northrop Frye Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

  Northrop Frye

  Essence, Culture, Limits

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.127, Princeton University Press

• Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

  Northrop Frye

  Healthy, Culture, Movement

  Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.292, Dundurn

• We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

  Northrop Frye

  United States, Culture, Threat

• Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

  Northrop Frye

  Understanding, Intellectual, Atheism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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