Famous Quotes / George Steiner
George Steiner: "It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past."
Achievement | Active | Against | Biological |
Borrowed | Cultures | Each | Historical |
Identity | Images | Itself | Literal |
Mirrors | Mythology | Other | Past |
Picture | Possibly | Regress | Rules |
Save | Sense | Tests |