Top 9 Quotes by 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.

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

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

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

The world invited me many places.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

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

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

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