George Bernard Shaw — Philosophical Quotes

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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Philosophical

“A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.”

Men Children Growing Up

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Philosophical

“The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.”

Men Fashion Money

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Philosophical

“When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.”

Remember Fit Biographies

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Philosophical

“Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.”

Poverty Modern

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Philosophical

“The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.”

Christianity Savages

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Philosophical

“The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.”

May Doubt Doctors

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Philosophical

“I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.”

Evil Justified Good And Evil

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Philosophical

“What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.”

Thinking Men Character

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Philosophical

“We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now”

World Environmental Jehovah

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Philosophical

“Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.”

Real Country Dream

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Philosophical

“Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.”

Men Life Differences

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Philosophical

“All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.”

People Art Movie

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