Quotes by : Leon Wieseltier

In flight from intellectual heaviness, [he] arrives at intelligent weightlessness. Every notion is flipped....

Surely it is foolish to hate facts. The struggle against the past is a futile struggle. Acceptance seems....

...it's exemplification of our moment in American culture and American cultural journalism. It is an....

But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that....

The questions that we must ask ourselves, and that our historians and our children will ask of us, are....

It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty.

[T]he strongest defense of the humanities lies not in the appeal to their utility — that literature....

The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the....