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
happiness work character
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
reflection age germany
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
forgiveness unforgivable-sin refusal
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
love half firsts
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
photography clothes benefits
Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
inattention contempt familiarity-breeds-contempt
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
memories self bird
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.
art men giving
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
love heart surrender
...so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.
summer nature fate
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
ideas growth mind
A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.
truth mean quality
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
atheism life-is blindness
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
mean profound noble
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.