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
beauty beautiful fleeting
In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.
mind irrevocable
Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
government
There is no right government except good government.
progress may evolution
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.
knowledge together steps
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.
substance causes opinion
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
half opinion reason
Docility is the observable half of reason.
nature noble youth
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
ideas progress stronger
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.
peace philosophy harmony
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
world spirituality should
To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.
experience done sake
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.
freedom artist interesting
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.
ideas progress would-be
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.