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