Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

- Leon Wieseltier

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

- Leon Wieseltier

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

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

- Leon Wieseltier

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

- Leon Wieseltier

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 …

- Leon Wieseltier

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 cours…

- Leon Wieseltier

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

- Leon Wieseltier

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

- Leon Wieseltier