“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”

— C.G. Jung

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C.G. Jung 257

Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… 1875–1961

Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar

Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), pp. 33-34.

“"Every person may freely speak, write, or publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right" That is in the constitution of nearly every State in the Union, and the intention of that is to cover slanderous words -- to cover a case where a man under pretence of enjoying the freedom of speech falsely assails or accuses his neighbor. Of course he should be held responsible for that abuse.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)

“The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.”

Benjamin Mkapa (1938) Tanzanian politician and former president

September 1999 http://ospiti.peacelink.it/npeople/sep99/Pag1sept.html
1999

“Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.”

Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

Review of the book My Hope for America (1964) by Lyndon B. Johnson
Cannibals and Christians (1966)

“As for 'taste' as a criterion of painting I find that it is most frequently applied to work that is essentially insensitive, brutal or vulgar beyond question. Could it now be a term with political undertones to seduce, or cover profounder motives of exploitation? I propose it be kept to the wine cellar. There it deceives no one but him who over-indulges.”

Clyfford Still (1904–1980) American artist

Clyfford Still, in an interview with Ti Grace Sharpless, 1963; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990, p. 201
1960s

“Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.”

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer

"1941"
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

“What I want, I think, is the sentimental, but the sentimental reached by no easy beaten track”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

Letter 60, to Robert Trevelyan, 28 October 1905
Selected Letters (1983-1985)
Context: You can gather however that I know I am not a real artist, and at the same time am fearfully serious over my work and willing to sweat at atmosphere if it helps me wo what I want. What I want, I think, is the sentimental, but the sentimental reached by no easy beaten track—I cannot explain myself properly, for you must remember (I forget it myself) that though 'clever' I have a small and cloudy brain, and cannot clear it by talking or reading philosophy.