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
life predicaments spectacles
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
too-much philosopher fierce
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
get-well mind body
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
prayer people effort
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
health men disease
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
optimism evil ruins
The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
shells thousand
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
military victory religion
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
children men possession
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
men evil savages
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.
tides body evolution
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.
memories poverty pleasure
The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.
freedom men judging
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
flower reason
Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.