All George Steiner Quotes
- 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… Achievement
- The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock… Across
- To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. Air
- The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn… Any
- The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral. Choral
- The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions,… Absorbed
- If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code. Adamic
- Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the… Art
- To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial.… Burial
- The age of the book is almost gone. Age
- The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. Biographies
- Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. Act
- To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the… Cities
- The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory… Alien
- He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… Asking
- The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. Casts
- There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. Culture
- Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is. Accept
- The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction.… Absolutely
- He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the… Able
- Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon.… Act
- If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope. Afflicted
- The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. Brutality
- The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. Book
- The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of… Anchorage
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