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
experience conclusion draws
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
men dignity capacity
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
life motivational friendship
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
voice soul body
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
function dear adopted
Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
men historical language
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
friendship buddhist men
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
doe remember bounds
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again
fashion ideas ominous
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
religious atheist inspiration
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
education ideas difficulty
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
dream dreamer knows
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
believe heart
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
happiness happy determination
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.