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
exercise thinking people
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
chaos bottom
Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.
art stupid moving
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.
men long speech
Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.
tunes concerts hard
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
theater artifice
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.
hate passion soul
My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.
heart men religion
Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
wisdom words-of-wisdom disillusionment
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
wise art believe
O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.
facts may being-true
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.
men unhappiness easy
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
love-life religion consciousness
Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
travel character may
The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.