Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltieris an American writer, critic, amateur philosopher and magazine editor. From 1983 to 2014, he was the literary editor of The New Republic. He is currently the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth14 June 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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The effort was to summon to the bosoms of her personnel the sort of man that Barrows likes to call "nice." Nice meant rich.
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Why should I admire somebody for his ability to manipulate me? In other realms of life, this talent is known as demagoguery.
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No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
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A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy,
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The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered,
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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.
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Use the new technologies for the old purposes.
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There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.