George Bernard Shaw Philosophical Quotes

Playwright, Critic

Philosophical

“I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.”

Believe Years Hard Work

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Philosophical

“Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.”

Delight Drink Without Music

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Philosophical

“The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.”

Inspirational Doe

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Philosophical

“Principles without programs are platitudes.”

Principles Program

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Philosophical

“In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.”

Real Civilization Recognition

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Philosophical

“No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.”

Children Ideas Clothes

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Philosophical

“As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.”

Men School Editors

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Philosophical

“The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.”

Children Discipline Hypocrisy

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Philosophical

“When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.”

Wish Orthodoxy True And False

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Philosophical

“It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.”

Way Beautiful Beauty

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Philosophical

“All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!”

Trying Mistake Struggle

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Philosophical

“The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.”

Years Inspiration Silly

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George Bernard Shaw — Philosophical Quotes

George Bernard Shaw Quotes