14 Quotations by George Steiner
- 1. A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ul ...
![A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ul .... George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 2. It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the ...
![It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the .... George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 3. Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it ...
![Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it .... George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 4. Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
![Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.. George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 5. Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the wor ...
![Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the wor .... George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 6. The age of the book is almost gone.
![The age of the book is almost gone.. George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 7. The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
![The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.. George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 8. The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers an ...
![The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers an .... George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 9. The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries ...
![The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries .... George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 10. There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
![There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.. George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 11. To many men...the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
![To many men...the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.. George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 12. To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribut ...
![To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribut .... George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 13. We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and ...
![We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and .... George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
- 14. Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
![Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.. George Steiner.](/img/view.gif)
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