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Us Quotes by George Steiner
- 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…
- 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,…
- Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
- 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…
- Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them…
- We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against…
- Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle