Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tell other people the truth; but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in codes, or in political orations,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image