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
blessed animal peaceful
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
people aroma life-is
Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
philosophy phylosophy advantage
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
truth circumstances mortals
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
effort mind age
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
education people judgement
A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.
philosophical mind unexpected
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.
life laughter confused
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
love-is animal divine
Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ...
life believe long
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
powerful america optimism
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
religious language speak
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
religious soul atheism
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.