What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful.… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media. — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered, — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy, — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
