The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity. Northrop Frye More Quotes by Northrop Frye More Quotes From Northrop Frye The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means. Northrop Frye bedrockdoubtmean I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. Northrop Frye speechliteraturefundamentals The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death. Northrop Frye supremacy 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 old-testamentmaybook The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation. Northrop Frye water-of-lifetreemen We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres. Northrop Frye centrespace It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition. Northrop Frye blockemotionalthinking Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. Northrop Frye knowmoralmoneycountry
