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Zitat des Tages von George Steiner:

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

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

George Steiner

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

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

George Steiner

The age of the book is almost gone.

George Steiner

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

George Steiner

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

George Steiner

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.

George Steiner

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

George Steiner

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.

George Steiner

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

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

George Steiner

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

George Steiner

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

George Steiner

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

George Steiner

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

George Steiner

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.

George Steiner