George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
atheism firsts immortality
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
atheism taste infinite
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.
men average careers
Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?
hypocrisy atheism world
I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.
ideas atheism belief
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
heaven atheism helping
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
art philosophy mean
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
thinking sea fishing
I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.
passion men games
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own... You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.
growing revelations
Our growing thought Makes growing revelation.
what-if deeds ifs
What if my words Were meant for deeds.
light broken darkness
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
prayer wish ends
Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.
inns should
Where you have friends you should not go to inns.