"Self-projection is, more often than not, the move……" — George Steiner
"Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality."
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76 Quotes by George Steiner
George Steiner has 76 quotes on this site.
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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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…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she…
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on,…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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More Craftsman Quotes
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
— John Calvin
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There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not…
— Kathy Whitworth
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For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image…
— Clement of Alexandria
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The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts…
— Fritz Haber
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Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but…
— H. L. Mencken
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A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist;…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.
— Man Ray
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The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft!…
— Walter Gropius
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would…
— Edward Abbey
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There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made…
— Karl Marx
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