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
art men discipline
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
spring animal world
Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?
government
There is no right government except good government.
boston cities intellectual
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
love light illustration
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.
space order wonderful
The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.
opportunity america influence
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
mind adequate principles
There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.
eye world and-love
The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.
disillusionment
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.
facts immortality born
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
waiting realization prove-it
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
men eulogy quality
When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.
men drink reconcile
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.