Is there any hope in education?
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Contexto: In truth, mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true: what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.
George Bernard Shaw: Frases en inglés (página 5)
George Bernard Shaw era escritor irlandés, ganador del Premio Nobel de literatura en 1925 y del Óscar en 1938. Frases en inglés.
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1900s, Getting Married (1908)
Contexto: Religion is a great force — the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours. Instead of facing that fact, you persist in trying to convert all men to your own little sect, so that you can use it against them afterwards. You are all missionaries and proselytizers trying to uproot the native religion from your neighbor's flowerbeds and plant your own in its place. You would rather let a child perish in ignorance than have it taught by a rival sectary. You can talk to me of the quintessential equality of coal merchants and British officers; and yet you can't see the quintessential equality of all the religions.
The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Contexto: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.
Variante: Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
Variante: We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
Androcles y el León
Preface, The importance of hell in the salvation scheme
Fuente: 1910s, Androcles and the Lion (1913)
Contexto: The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
George Bernard Shaw
Back to Methuselah
Fuente: Back to Methuselah
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
Annajanska (1919)
1910s
Fuente: Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress
Act V
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Fuente: The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
Widely attributed to Shaw, this quotation is actually of unknown origin.
Misattributed
Variante: She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.