Quotation by

George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Love

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

George Bernard Shaw is saying that qualities like glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and lasting love exist mostly as ideas or ideals written down, rather than fully realized in real life. He suggests that humanity has not yet truly lived up to these noble concepts beyond what is described in books or theory.

More by this author

All quotes by George Bernard Shaw →

More quotes about Love

See all →

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wi…

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes…

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.