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# George Steiner

(1929–2020)   Philosopher   France

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George Steiner was a philosopher from France, best known for *Martin Heidegger*.

## Quick Facts About George Steiner

Born April 23, 1929

Died February 3, 2020

Nationality France

Profession Philosopher

Notable works Martin Heidegger

Known for After Babel

Spouse Zara Steiner

## About George Steiner

Francis George Steiner, FBA was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".

## Awards & Honors

Ludwig-Börne-Preis Rhodes Scholarship Guggenheim Fellowship Knight of the Legion of Honour Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain Honorary doctor of the University of Liège Fellow of the British Academy “Today” Prize

Show 12 more awards Princess of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanities Alfonso Reyes International Prize Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna honorary doctor of Durham University honorary doctor of the University of Girona honorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow honorary doctor of the University of Bristol honorary doctor of the University of Lisbon honorary doctorate from ENS honorary doctor of Paris Descartes University

##  Quotes by George Steiner · Page 2

> [Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/books-the-best-antidote-against-the-marsh-gas-of-boredom-and-vacuity/)

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> [What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/what-worthwhile-book-after-the-pentateuch-has-been-written-by-a/)

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> [I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/i-m-sorry-i-m-absolutely-convinced-that-there-is-at-the-moment-no/)

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> [Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/words-that-are-saturated-with-lies-or-atrocity-do-not-easily-resume/)

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[Language](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language/)

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> [The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-ordinary-man-casts-a-shadow-in-a-way-we-do-not-quite-understand/)

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> [“Indeed, what could God be if His being could be circumscribed, let alone demonstrated by human dialectics and ratiocination?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/indeed-what-could-god-be-if-his-being-could-be-circumscribed-let/)

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[Dialectics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dialectics/)

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> [It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/it-is-not-the-literal-past-that-rules-us-save-possibly-in-a-2/)

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> [If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/if-there-is-a-chronic-infirmity-by-which-every-teacher-ought-to-be/)

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[Faith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faith/)

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> [“No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/no-phonetic-sign-except-at-a-rudimentary-strictly-speaking-pre/)

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[Language](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language/)

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> [Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/central-to-everything-i-am-and-believe-and-have-written-is-my/)

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[Astonishment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astonishment/)

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> [Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/language-can-only-deal-meaningfully-with-a-special-restricted-segment/)

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[Language](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language/)

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> [I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/i-owe-everything-to-a-system-that-made-me-learn-by-heart-till-i-wept/)

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[Education](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/education/)

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> [The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-private-reader-of-listener-can-become-an-executant-of-felt/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/self-projection-is-more-often-than-not-the-move-of-the-minor/)

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[Craftsman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/craftsman/)

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> [My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/my-writing-of-fiction-comes-under-a-very-general-heading-of-those/)

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[Critics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/critics/)

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> [He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/he-who-has-read-kafka-s-metamorphosis-and-can-look-into-his-mirror/)

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[Able](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/able/)

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> [The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-new-sound-sphere-is-global-it-ripples-at-great-speed-across/)

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[Economics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/economics/)

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> [When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/when-he-looks-back-the-critic-sees-a-eunuch-s-shadow-who-would-be-a/)

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[Arguing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arguing/)

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> [But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/but-i-would-like-to-think-for-a-moment-about-a-man-who-in-the-morning/)

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[Afternoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/afternoon/)

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> [To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/to-a-degree-which-is-difficult-to-determine-the-esoteric-impulse-in/)

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> [The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-violent-illiteracies-of-the-graffiti-the-clenched-silence-of-the/)

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> [“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-inception-of-human-consciousness-the-genesis-of-awareness-must/)

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[Consciousness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/consciousness/)

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> [The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-notion-of-travelling-to-far-places-in-order-to-study-alien/)

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[Aliens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aliens/)

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> [Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/monotheism-at-sinai-primitive-christianity-messianic-socialism-these/)

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[Blackmail](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blackmail/)

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> [To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/to-ask-larger-questions-is-to-risk-getting-things-wrong-not-to-ask/)

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> [To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/to-many-men-the-miasma-of-peace-seems-more-suffocating-than-the/)

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[Air](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air/)

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> [For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/for-many-human-beings-religion-has-been-the-music-which-they-believe/)

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[Believe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believe/)

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> [The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-intellectual-is-quite-simply-a-human-being-who-has-a-pencil-in/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/nothing-in-a-language-is-less-translatable-than-its-modes-of/)

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[Inspirational](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inspirational/)

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> [“The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-fantastically-wasteful-prodigality-of-human-tongues-the-babel/)

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[Diversity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/diversity/)

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> [Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/chess-may-be-the-deepest-least-exhaustible-of-pastimes-but-it-is/)

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[Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/)

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> [Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/books-are-in-no-hurry-an-act-of-creation-is-in-no-hurry-it-reads-us/)

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[Act](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/act/)

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> [It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/it-took-10-months-for-me-to-learn-to-tie-a-lace-i-must-have-howled/)

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[Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/day/)

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> [We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/we-know-that-a-man-can-read-goethe-or-rilke-in-the-evening-that-he/)

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[Auschwitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/auschwitz/)

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> [Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/pornographers-subvert-this-last-vital-privacy-they-do-our-imagining/)

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[Cybersecurity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cybersecurity/)

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> [Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/literature-and-the-arts-are-also-criticism-in-a-more-particular-and/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/when-it-turned-on-the-jew-christianity-and-european-civilization/)

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[Christianity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity/)

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> [To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/to-starve-a-child-of-the-spell-of-the-story-of-the-canter-of-the-poem/)

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[Burial](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/burial/)

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> [the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-calling-of-the-teacher-there-is-no-craft-more-privileged-to/)

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[Adventure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adventure/)

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> [The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-oresteia-king-lear-dostoevsky-s-the-devils-no-less-than-the-art/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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## George Steiner by topic

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