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Leon Wieseltier quotes

American Writer June 14, 1952

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But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight — matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one’s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows. Leon Wieseltier
The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning. Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier quote: "Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the..."
Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money. Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier quote: "There are times when the power of language is not the power..."
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier quote: "A wall of books is a wall of windows."
A wall of books is a wall of windows. Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier quote: "Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's..."
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media. Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier quote: "There are moral religious people and moral secular people,..."
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people. Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier quote: "No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in..."
No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier quote: "I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars."
I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars. Leon Wieseltier
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier quote: "I do not value religion chiefly for its morality."
I do not value religion chiefly for its morality. Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier quote: "Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid."
Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid. Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier quote: "The world invited me many places."
The world invited me many places. Leon Wieseltier

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