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Der einzige Weg, der zum Wissen führt, ist Tätigkeit.
Informationen über George Bernard Shaw
Dramatiker, Satiriker, "Der Liebhaber", erhielt 1925 den Nobelpreis für Literatur, OSCAR im Jahre 1939 für das beste Drehbuch/Verfilmung von "Pygmalion", einziger Nobelpreisträger, der auch einen OSCAR erhielt (Irland, 1856 - 1950).
George Bernard Shaw · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
George Bernard Shaw wäre heute 167 Jahre, 8 Monate, 29 Tage oder 61.268 Tage alt.
Geboren am 26.07.1856 in Dublin
Gestorben am 02.11.1950 in Ayot St. Lawrence
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Weitere 729 Zitate von George Bernard Shaw
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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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.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gambling is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
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The test of a man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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The trouble, Mr Goldwyn, is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money.
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The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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The younger generation is knocking at the door, and as I open it there steps spritely in the incomparable Max.
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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
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There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
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There are scores of thousands of sects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms requiem.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.