Leon Wieseltier Quotes

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• Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.
• But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They…
• I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?
• No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
• There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.
• Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.
• I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.
• Use the new technologies for the old purposes.
• Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can…
• Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.
• 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.
• The world invited me many places.
• There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
• A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy,
• The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered,
• 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 few…
• Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith…
• I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

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