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“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
“I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
“One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of the scepticism.

— Shaw's Preface”
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
“The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.”
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
“It is not easy to make the best of both worlds when one of the worlds is preaching a Class War, and the other vigorously practising it.

— Shaw's Preface”
George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah