I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.
George SteinerTo many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
George Steinerthe calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond oneโs own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of oneโs inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.
George SteinerFischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'
George Steiner