Life is like a flame that is always burning itself out...
George Bernard ShawCriminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard ShawTag: justice death punishment crime capital-punishment
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
George Bernard ShawTag: humor inspirational art photography fish images cod
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
George Bernard ShawI want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard ShawThe schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.
George Bernard ShawThe world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in codes, or in political orations, or in philosophic systems, is not the main world at all: it is only the self-consciousness of certain abnormal people who have the specific artistic talent and temperament. A serious matter this for you and me, because the man whose consciousness does not correspond to that of the majority is a madman; and the old habit of worshipping madmen is giving way to the new habit of locking them up. And since what we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the absolete fictitious for the contemporary real, education, as you no doubt observed at Oxford, destroys, by supplantation, every mind that is not strong enough to see through the imposture and to use the great Masters of Arts as what they really are and no more: that is, patentees of highly questionable methods of thinking, and manufacturers of highly questionable, and for the majority but half valid representations of life. The school boy who uses his Homer to throw at his fellow's head makes perhaps the safest and most rational use of him; and I observe with reassurance that you occasionally do the same, in your prime, with your Aristotle.
George Bernard Shaw...a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard ShawI choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
George Bernard ShawTag: vegetarianism veganism
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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