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Quotes from Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts — Northrop Frye

1912–1991 Canada

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Genius is a power of the soul and that powers of the soul can be developed by everyone. (p. 8)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

One of the major activities of art consists in sharpening the edge of platitudes to make them enter the soul as realities. (p. 7)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

I don`t want the reduction of religion to aesthetics, but the abolition of aesthetics & incorporating of art with the Word of God. (p. 7)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

Under the stimulation of a "great age" or certain period of clarity in art a wider diffusion of genius becomes actual suggests to me that it is always potential. (p. 8)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

In imaginative thought there is no real knowledge of anything but similarities (ultimately identities): knowledge of differences is merely a transition to a new knowledge of similarities. (p. 215)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

Education is a set of analogies to a genuinely human existence, of which the arts are the model. Merely human life is of course a demonic analogy or parody of genuinely human life. (p. 149)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

Belief has nothing to do with knowledge, & credo ut intelligam [I believe in order that I might understand] is horseshit. (p. 209)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

A community`s art is its spiritual vision. (p. 206)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

The "flow of information," which is mostly misinformation, is actually a presentation of myths. And people are increasingly rejecting the prescribed myths & developing their own counter-myths. (p. 97)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

We read (experience) a text linearly, forgetting most of it while we read; then we study it as a simultaneous unit. (p. 325)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

Nothing is more remarkable in the Bible than the absence of argument...Argument is internal continuity. So is logical sequence in narrative: in the Bible the connectives are just "and." (p. 200)

Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Northrop Frye (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.