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
ideas literature events
To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.
lying hero shouting
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
men imagination superstitions
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
wise opposites balance
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it...
promise fossils swearing
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
hate animal men
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
stupidity meanness greater
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
inspiration age youth
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
character past order
Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.
beauty beautiful fleeting
In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
song art singing
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.
men play serious
Man's most serious activity is play.
anxiety shapes
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.
mind irrevocable
Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.