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
kings crow crowns
How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?
nature soul conformity
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
echoes vision arms
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
passion thinking fancy
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.
equilibrium idiocy universe
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
love-is animal divine
Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine ...
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.
mistake self cynical
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
music useless life-is
Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
art philosophy dangerous
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
vanity support forgiving
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
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.
forgiveness unforgivable-sin refusal
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
inattention contempt familiarity-breeds-contempt
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.