"when a language dies, a way of understanding……" — George Steiner
"when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world."
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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 Dies Quotes
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries…
— Jane Austen
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
— Dan Aykroyd
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
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Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
— Dave Barry
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are…
— Annie Besant
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
— Jim Bishop
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Love dies only when growth stops.
— Pearl S. Buck
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