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
together absurd transitory
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
art history melancholy
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
bible religious hygiene
The Bible is literature, not dogma.
country memories heart
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me.
memories rumor internals
Memory... is an internal rumor.
faith sky columbus
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.
together needs intimacy
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
kings history interesting
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.
religion fairy-tale tales
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
men religion wagers
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.
share intolerance form
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
change art memories
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
beauty perfection missing
The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.
grace elude depth
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.