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The velocity and volume on th...

The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

What matters to me is that on...

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 20 quotes

But even now, with the crates...

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 20 quotes

Here is a humanist propositio...

Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

No great deed, private or pub...

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

A thoughtless citizen of a de...

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

Philip Kitcher has composed t...

Philip Kitcher has composed the most formidable defense of the secular view of life since Dewey. Unlike almost all of contemporary atheism, Life After Faith is utterly devoid of cartoons and caricatures of religion. It is, instead, a sober and soulful book, an exemplary practice of philosophical reflection. Scrupulous in its argument, elegant in its style, humane in its spirit, it is animated by a stirring aspiration to wisdom. Even as I quarrel with it I admire it.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

American Jews, like Americans...

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

Her book about the money in s...

Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

I hear it said of somebody th...

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

I do not value religion chiefl...

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

Incorruptibility by money is t...

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

Here is a humanist proposition...

Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

American Jews, like Americans,...

American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

Use the new technologies for t...

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

Dilettantism is the sort of th...

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

There are moral religious peop...

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

No great deed, private or publ...

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

I hear it said of somebody tha...

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Leon Wieseltier 20 quotes

But even now, with the crates ...

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 Ђ' 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 20 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....