George Bernard Shaw — Philosophical Quotes

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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Philosophical

“I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.”

Men Believe Exercise

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Philosophical

“The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.”

Military Illusion Capacity

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Philosophical

“An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.”

Believe Ideas Can Not

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Philosophical

“Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.”

Merit Distinction

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Philosophical

“An index is a great leveller.”

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Philosophical

“The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.”

Cutting Angel Fate

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Philosophical

“Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.”

Children School Teacher

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Philosophical

“There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject”

Moments Score Insects

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Philosophical

“The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it”

Community Moments Faces

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Philosophical

“It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.”

Men Persons Honesty

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Philosophical

“Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.”

Believe Writing Lying

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Philosophical

“You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.”

Writing Book May

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