Quotation by

George Bernard Shaw

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

Beauty

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

George Bernard Shaw is saying that qualities like glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and lasting love exist more as ideas or ideals in writing than in real life. He suggests that while these concepts are celebrated and admired in theory, humanity has not fully realized them in practice.

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