George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Nature Quotes, Lying Quotes

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

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All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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The stock actor is a stage calamity

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The harder I work the more I live.

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

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

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Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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