George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Wise Quotes, Men Quotes

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

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Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

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A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.

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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

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I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

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Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

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If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

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The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

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She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

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Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

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