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
ideas progress stronger
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.
philosophy may force
Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
philosophy jealous want
Philosophers are as jealous as woman; each wants a monopoly of praise.
philosophy warrior doe
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
world spirituality should
To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.
real soul spirituality
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
spirituality social sanctity
A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.
real believe sadness
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
change wisdom past
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
criticism facts judgment
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
passion sacred way
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
dating together enough
We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.
death evil dying
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
time knowing eternity
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.