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."
- George Steiner
(Related: Vision)

"The age of the book is almost gone."
- George Steiner
(Related: Age)

"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."
- George Steiner
(Related: Genius, Light, Man, Shadow)

"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness."
- George Steiner
(Related: Culture, Wrong)

"To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war."
- George Steiner
(Related: Peace, War, Men)

"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."
- George Steiner
(Related: Work, Day, Evening, Man, Play)

"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life."
- George Steiner
(Related: Life, Lies, Words)

"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."
- George Steiner
(Related: Language, Reality, Rest, Silence)

"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."
- George Steiner
(Related: Majority)

"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
- George Steiner
(Related: Men)