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
philosophy men mind
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
giving healthy atheism
Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.
happiness believe passion
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
passion thinking fancy
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
memories past echoes
Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
change moving world
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.
men simplicity simple-life
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
happiness succeed standards
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.
light jewels may
Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.
stupid ideas brain
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
men importance
Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
dream art design
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
justice heaven principles
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.
men funeral dying
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.