George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The actuality of thought is life.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Thought is the measure of life.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

To live is to think.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

What we play is life.

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other.