George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Soul Quotes, Atheism Quotes

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

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English is the easiest language to speak badly.

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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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