George Bernard Shaw Philosophical Quotes

Playwright, Critic

Philosophical

“Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.”

Two Class Gains

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Philosophical

“If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.”

Believe Demand Authority

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Philosophical

“The philosopher is Nature's pilot.”

Philosopher Pilots

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Philosophical

“Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.”

Two

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Philosophical

“Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.”

Feet Sky Bible

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Philosophical

“To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.”

Needs Democracy Aristocracy

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Philosophical

“A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.”

Men Acting Principles

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Philosophical

“Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.”

Honesty Absurd Temperature

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Philosophical

“The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.”

People Men Writing

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Philosophical

“Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.”

Real Queens Divorce

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Philosophical

“Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.”

Running Tired Humble

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Philosophical

“The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.”

World Philosophy Fool

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George Bernard Shaw — Philosophical Quotes

George Bernard Shaw Quotes