Leon Wieseltier Quotes

United States, Writer
June 14, 1952

Leon Wieseltier (/ˈviːzəltɪər/; born June 14, 1952) is an American writer, critic, philosopher and magazine editor. From 1983 to 2014, he was the literary editor of The New Republic.

Also known as Critic, Philosopher, Editor

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

Leon Wieseltier
- Money
- Book
- Feeling
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

Leon Wieseltier
- People
- Religious
- Moral

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

Leon Wieseltier
- Money
Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

Leon Wieseltier
I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Leon Wieseltier
- Value
I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Leon Wieseltier
- Culture
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

Leon Wieseltier
- Power
The world invited me many places.

Leon Wieseltier
- World

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