What did George Steiner mean by: Language is the main instrument of man’s refusal to accept the world as it is. - George Steiner Copy
+ 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
+ The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Light, Shadow, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Borders, Silence, 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
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. - Jean-Jacques Annaud Director · France
The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms. - Frank Griswold
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. - George Henry Lewes Philosopher and literary critic · England
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. - Walt Disney Animator · USA