“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.” MenWritingPlayHandsGivenNovelGraceGeniusCriticismCriticsSecond Hand Book:Language and Silence Source: Language and Silence
“Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.” WorldBookHandsPastNextDoorsWallWinterGuidesCyclesMuseumsChamberButchersMunichChamber MusicDachau Author:George Steiner
“My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.” WritingTryingHandsFictionTeacherCriticsScholarHeadings Author:George Steiner
“The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory genius of the Greeks; no primitive peoples have ever come to study us. This is, on the one hand, a disinterested, intellectually inspired impulse. It is one of our glories. But it is, on the other, part and parcel of exploitation. [] The Western obsession with inquiry, with analysis, with the classification of all living forms, is itself a mode of subjugation, of psychological and technical mastery.” MenHandsFormOrderCultureStudyGeniusUniqueSpringGloryWesternInspiredNotionObsessionPsychologicalAliensImpulseAnalysisGreekMasteryPrimitiveExploitationInquiryClassificationDisinterestedParcelPredatorySubjugation Author:George Steiner
“The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.” HumansBookHandsReadingHuman BeingsIntellectualPencilsIntellectualism Book:No Passion Spent Source: No Passion Spent
