What did George Steiner mean by: The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. - George Steiner Copy
+ The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Biographies, Majority, Oblivion, 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
+ To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Steiner, Significance, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate. - Jean Vanier Philosopher and theologian
Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature? - Jean-Dominique Bauby Journalist · France
There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
