What did George Steiner mean by: The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. - George Steiner Copy
+ To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Significance, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Faith, God, Hope, 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
+ Language is the main instrument of man’s refusal to accept the world as it is. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Language, 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
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. - Friedrich Schiller Playwright · Germany
When you cannot achieve a majority, it’s a good idea to get rid of minority stakes. Explain - Mathias Dopfner CEO · Germany
My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software. - Matt Mullenweg Entrepreneur and web developer · USA
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion. - Max Beerbohm Satirist and caricaturist · England
The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority. - Louis O. Kelso Economist and lawyer · USA
If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you’ll probably disappear into oblivion. - Wade MacNeil
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.” - Michael Porter Economist
I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed. - Gary Lineker
