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Men Quotes by George Steiner
- To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
- 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.
- Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
- 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…
- The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the…
- 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…
More Men 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
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle