Famous quotes containing the words steiner, chain and/or circles:
“Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles....”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)