George Steiner Quotes

» The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

» The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

» The age of the book is almost gone.

» We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

» Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

» There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

» Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

» Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

» The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

» To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

» The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

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