George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

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I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

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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.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

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