What did George Steiner mean by: If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope. - George Steiner Copy
+ Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Lying, 0 - George Steiner
+ To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Significance, 0 - George Steiner
+ Books – the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Book, Boredom, Reading, 0 - George Steiner
+ When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, 0 - George Steiner
+ For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Believe, Human, 0 - George Steiner
+ To many men… the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Peace, War, 0 - George Steiner
+ Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Book, Privilege, 0 - George Steiner
+ There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Culture, Noise, 0 - George Steiner
Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals. Explain - Jean le Rond d'Alembert Mathematician and physicist · France
But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown! - William Cowper Poet · England
Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
If there wasn’t a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France