Top 80 George Steiner Quotes (2024 Update)
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George Steiner Quote: “Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.”

51. “Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “I’m sorry, I’m absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.”

52. “I’m sorry, I’m absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “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.”

53. “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.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.”

54. “For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.”

55. “The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “The age of the book is almost gone.”

56. “The age of the book is almost gone.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?”

57. “What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.”

58. “Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation – albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware – of its own best hopes.”

59. “When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation – albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware – of its own best hopes.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.”

60. “I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.”

61. “Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.”

62. “More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.”

63. “Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.”

64. “My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “Indeed, what could God be if His being could be circumscribed, let alone demonstrated by human dialectics and ratiocination?”

65. “Indeed, what could God be if His being could be circumscribed, let alone demonstrated by human dialectics and ratiocination?”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “Ours is the ability, the need, to gainsay or ‘un-say’ the world, to image and speak it otherwise. In that capacity in its biological and social evolution, may lie some of the clues to the question of the origins of human speech and the multiplicity of tongues. It is not, perhaps, ‘a theory of information’ that will serve us best in trying to clarify the nature of language, but a ‘theory of misinformation’.”

66. “Ours is the ability, the need, to gainsay or ‘un-say’ the world, to image and speak it otherwise. In that capacity in its biological and social evolution, may lie some of the clues to the question of the origins of human speech and the multiplicity of tongues. It is not, perhaps, ‘a theory of information’ that will serve us best in trying to clarify the nature of language, but a ‘theory of misinformation’.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.”

67. “Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man.”

68. “The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.”

69. “Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.”

70. “The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.”

71. “I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “After Babel postulates that translation is formally and pragmatically implicit in every act of communication, in the emission and reception of each and every mode of meaning, be it in the widest semiotic sense or in more specifically verbal exchanges. To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.”

72. “After Babel postulates that translation is formally and pragmatically implicit in every act of communication, in the emission and reception of each and every mode of meaning, be it in the widest semiotic sense or in more specifically verbal exchanges. To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “But there is a third mode of trancendence: in it language simply ceases, and the motion of spirit gives no further outward manifestation of its being. The poet enters into silence. Here the word borders not on radiance or music, but on night.”

73. “But there is a third mode of trancendence: in it language simply ceases, and the motion of spirit gives no further outward manifestation of its being. The poet enters into silence. Here the word borders not on radiance or music, but on night.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.”

74. “No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.”

75. “It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.”

76. “If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.”

77. “When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.”

78. “The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “Too often, to speak is to “get it wrong.”

79. “Too often, to speak is to “get it wrong.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “Those who, in actual fact, generate the syllabus, who recognize, elucidate, and transmit the legacy of literacy in regard to textual, artistic, and musical creation, have always been, are a handful.”

80. “Those who, in actual fact, generate the syllabus, who recognize, elucidate, and transmit the legacy of literacy in regard to textual, artistic, and musical creation, have always been, are a handful.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “It is not the literal past that rules us: it is images of the past.”

81. “It is not the literal past that rules us: it is images of the past.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.”

82. “There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.”

— George Steiner

George Steiner Quote: “Unlike Tolstoy, Dostoevsky was ardently persuaded of Christ’s divinity, but that divinity moved his soul and solicited his intelligence most forcefully through its human aspect.”

83. “Unlike Tolstoy, Dostoevsky was ardently persuaded of Christ’s divinity, but that divinity moved his soul and solicited his intelligence most forcefully through its human aspect.”

— George Steiner

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