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Leon Wieseltier

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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


#war #nature

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


— Leon Wieseltier


#book #feeling #gives #her #money

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.


— Leon Wieseltier


#i #i do #morality #religion #value

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.


— Leon Wieseltier


#i #interested #not interested #spending #wars

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


— Leon Wieseltier


#money #now #old #old story #story

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.


— Leon Wieseltier


#must #sort #thing

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


— Leon Wieseltier


#moral #people #religious #religious people #secular

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.


— Leon Wieseltier


#needed #power #times

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


#commitments #far #genuine #identifies #matters

The world invited me many places.


— Leon Wieseltier


#many #me #places #world






About Leon Wieseltier






Did you know about Leon Wieseltier?

Wieseltier appeared in one episode of the fifth season of The Sopranos playing "Stuart Silverman" a character whom Wieseltier described as "a derangingly materialistic co-religionist who dreams frantically of 'Wedding of the Week' and waits a whole year for some stupid car in which he can idle for endless hours in traffic east of Quogue every weekend of every summer the vulgar Zegna-swaddled brother of a Goldman Sachs mandarin whose son's siman tov u'mazel tov is provided by a pulchritudinous and racially diverse bunch of Leon Wieseltierllfish-eating chicks in tight off-the-shoulder gowns. Against Identity is a collection of thoughts about the modern notion of identity. During Wieseltier's tenure as literary editor of The New Republic many of his signed and unsigned writings have appeared in the magazine.

Since 1983 he has been the literary editor of The New Republic.

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