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
thinking firsts surrender
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
spiritual animal interest
All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.
break-a-leg legs left-behind
All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.
columbus world another-world
Columbus gave the world another world.
genius vices rebellious
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
intellectual elements harmony
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
echoes heaven world
I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.
art philosophy thoughtful
Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?
truth memories father
Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.
life sad soul
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
drinking spirit drink
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
real world enough
One real world is enough.
memories history
History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory.
hands here-i-am grace
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!