The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, ….

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from h….

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 di….

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 o….

No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become distinguished from o….

In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the s….

Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic..

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a….

In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens..

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer..

Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it ….

Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are….

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation gr….

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, cle….

I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse..

One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, becau….

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life..

Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is ther….

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment..

The ups and downs of this cosmos may sometimes be acknowledged to be metaphorical ups and downs, but until about Newton's time most people took the "….

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language..