George Bernard Shaw

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

No matter how hard the past is, we can always begin again.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Knowledge is power.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.