"The Jew has his anchorage not in place……" — George Steiner
"The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland."
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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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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of…
— Stephen Covey
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The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few…
— Tacitus
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers,…
— August Strindberg
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Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long,…
— Walt Whitman
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In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to…
— Edith Wharton
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If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and…
— A B Simpson
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I realized both the upper and lower body must be held securely in place with one strap across the chest…
— Nils Bohlin
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the…
— Jack Adams
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Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in…
— Anne Perry
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Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.
— Wright Morris
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