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
writing-history needs historian
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
future past welcome
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
birthday passion pride
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
atheist men insightful
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
dignity fixed traveler
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
miracle religion causes
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
revenge passion thinking
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
time achieve form
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.
theater artifice
The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.
columbus world another-world
Columbus gave the world another world.
pleasure barbarism
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
anxiety shapes
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.
drinking spirit drink
To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.
disillusionment
Wisdom comes from disillusionment.