"Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in……" — George Steiner
"Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have laboured to exorcise or to conceal from themselves and their clients. This ontological, which is to say both primordial and essential axiom (or platitude) of ineradicable undecidability needs, none the less, to be closely argued."
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76 Quotes by George Steiner
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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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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative…
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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
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An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful…
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust…
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The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science…
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I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because…
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