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Man Quotes by George Steiner
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
- Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
- To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human…
- If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of…
- The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of…
- What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt,…
- But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a…
- We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's…
- I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle