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“One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.”

Northrop Frye

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

“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.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 149

“…there is something about time and space that is not real, and something about us that is. However man may have tumbled into this world of indefinite space, he does not belong to it at all. Real space for him is the eternal here; where we are is always the center of the universe, and the circumference of the universe, just as real time is the 'eternal Now' of our personal experience.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", Fearful Symmetry : A Study of William Blake (1947), p. 46

“Art is not simply an identity of illusion and reality, but a counter-illusion: its world is a material world, but the material of an intelligible spiritual world.”

Northrop Frye

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

“Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.”

Northrop Frye

Words with Power : Being a Second Study of The Bible and Literature (1990), Introduction, p. xiii http://books.google.com/books?id=ZnSJb6PPnBoC&amp;pg=PP81&amp;lpg=PP81&amp;dq=%22which+is+inherited,+transmitted+and+diversified+by+literature%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=xJ1cLDaUCI&amp;sig=m6agYWMBlW0qfDYMA7aX9aNM8IE&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=PaCqUsiEM-issQT_4oGAAg&amp;ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&amp;q=%22which%20is%20inherited%2C%20transmitted%20and%20diversified%20by%20literature%22&amp;f=false <br class="br">&quot;Quotes&quot;

“It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and where we have to surrender precision for flexibility.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Three, p. 56

“The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Three, p. 61

“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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"Quotes", Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957), Mythical Phase: Symbol as Archetype

“The real Bible is a sealed book, an apocryphon, a book not to be opened (mentally) until its time has come.”

Northrop Frye

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

“We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Four, p. 83

“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.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 97

“One person by himself is not a complete human being.”

Northrop Frye

&quot;Quotes&quot;, The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 1: The Motive For Metaphor http://northropfrye-theeducatedimagination.blogspot.ca/2009/08/1-motive-for-metaphor.html

“We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.”

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"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

“A community`s art is its spiritual vision.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 206

“This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.(pg.18)”

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"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 2: The Singing School

“I have a notion that a prolonged period of solitude & fasting would produce hallucinations, & that these would be mandalas and such: they would be the essential forms in which "outer" perceptions are organized.”

Northrop Frye

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"Quotes", Notebooks

“When you stop to think about it, you soon realize that our imagination is what our whole social life is really based on…. In practically everything we do it's thee combination of emotion and intellect we call imagination that goes to work.”

Northrop Frye

"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence

“An aphorism is not a cliche: it penetrates & bites. It has wit, and consequently an affinity with satire…Christ speaks in aphorisms, not because they are alive, but because he is.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 108

“The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.”

Northrop Frye

Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter 8, p. 199

“Those who do succeed in reading the Bible from beginning to end will discover that at least it has a beginning and an end, and some traces of a total structure.”

Northrop Frye

Introduction, p. xiii
"Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)