“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless ...” — Lionel Trilling Quote

“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.”

“This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.”

“It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.”

“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”

“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.”

“It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.”

“We were in the market ahead of competition. We brought new products on the market ahead of competition. We rolled out our networks. We begged, borrowed, stole, put things out. And while they were never near perfect, they were first. And that gave us, to my mind, a lot of advantage.”

“I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.”

“The advantage of knowing about risks is that we can change our behavior to avoid them. Of course, it is easily observed that to avoid all risks would be impossible; it might entail no flying, no driving, no walking, eating and drinking only healthy foods, and never being touched by sunshine. Even a bath could be dangerous.”

“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

“You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them.”