Northrop Frye Quotes
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Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
[Advertising]
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Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
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Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
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Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
[Beauty]
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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.
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
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Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
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Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.
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Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
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The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.
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The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.
[Civilization]
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
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The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.
[Knowledge]
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There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
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War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.
[War]
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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.
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
[Education]
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