This world is all a fleeting show, For man’s illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, – There’s nothing true but Heaven.
—George Moore
Topics: World
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
—George Moore
The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.
—George Moore
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
—George Moore
Topics: Plagiarism
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
—George Moore
Topics: The Poor, Poverty
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
—George Moore
Topics: Self-Discovery, Travel, Love, Home, Discovery
The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will go under.
—George Moore
Topics: Criticism, Being True to Yourself
The difficulty in life is the choice.
—George Moore
Topics: Choice, Difficulty
The difficulty of life is in the choice.
—George Moore
Topics: Decisions
After all there is but one race—humanity.
—George Moore
Topics: Humanity, Humankind
So long as one does not despair, so long as one doesn’t look upon life bitterly, things work out fairly well in the end.
—George Moore
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
—George Moore
Topics: Compliments, Love
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
—George Moore
Topics: Criticism
When any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hideousness in humanitarianism.
—George Moore
Topics: Ego
It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisel
—George Moore
Topics: Ethics
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
—George Moore
Topics: Remorse
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?
—George Moore
Topics: Reality, Dream
There is nothing so consoling as to find one’s neighbor’s troubles are at least as great as one’s own.
—George Moore
Topics: Trials, Justice
Our ideas are here today and gone tomorrow, whereas our feelings are always with us, and we recognize those who feel like us, and at once, by a sort of instinct.
—George Moore
Topics: Emotions
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- Steven Pinker Canadian Psychologist
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