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
mean government political
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.
despair vitality reason
Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.
artist museums may
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
writing adventure young-friends
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
dream dark common-sense
...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.
choices atheism matter
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.
doctors perfect dying
It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.
optimism feelings religion
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.
The living have never shown me how to live.
intelligent use reform
The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.
christian jesus ideas
The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
death finals ends
I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.
vigilance eternal-vigilance eternal
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
dream real selfishness
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.