I.B. George Quotes
Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.
what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.
Has it ever occurred to you, ' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.
I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them.
If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
