Leon Wieseltier quotes

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty. (Leon Wieseltier)
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. View quote
Leon Wieseltier
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people. View quote
Leon Wieseltier
Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money. View quote
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. View quote
Leon Wieseltier
Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid. View quote
Leon Wieseltier