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
philosophy college oxford
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
adversity men fire
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
wisdom philosophy roots
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
suffering institutions rational
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
doubt atheism would-be
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
ignorance science facts
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
men laughing fool
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
use conversation impulse
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
dignity internet free-speech
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
world moments contradiction
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
hype small-changes currency
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
emotional feelings ends
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
truth lying believe
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
pain long-ago should
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.