Northrop Frye Quotes

Northrop Frye — Canadian Critic born on July 14, 1912, died on January 23, 1991

Herman Northrop Frye, CC FRSC was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century... (wikipedia)

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.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

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.

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.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Northrop Frye Quotes

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