[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$faVeb69utElL3BKfMprnYPvCQQZ_LIXkoASg5VUXpa7o":3,"$fmcftRJk3ZQTO8Ir-JI6ZSRHmYNoQ8qjYslGAEfi_GPo":52},{"author":4,"tags":51},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":10,"bio_jsonld":11,"slug":49,"image_url":50},162607,"George A. Moore","G",26,"Published among his notable works, Confessions of a Young Man stands as one of the identified titles associated with George Moore, an Irish writer who worked across an unusually wide range of forms during a career spanning more than five decades.\n\nBorn on 24 February 1852 in Ballyglass, Moore was an Irish citizen who originally wanted to be a painter. During the 1870s he pursued that ambition in Paris, receiving formal training at the Académie Julian. He went on to work as a novelist, poet, dramatist, playwright, art critic, art historian, and screenwriter, producing output in the English language across literary, critical, and dramatic fields throughout his life.\n\nAs a novelist and poet, Moore contributed to English-language writing over several decades. His work as a dramatist and playwright extended his activity beyond prose fiction, while his engagement with art criticism and art history drew on the visual arts education he had undertaken as a young man in France. The breadth of his output placed him across a range of overlapping literary and critical concerns during his lifetime.\n\nMoore continued working as a writer until late in his life. Confessions of a Young Man remains the identified notable work associated with his name in the available record. He died on 21 January 1933 in Pimlico, having moved from the studios of the Académie Julian in Paris to an extensive body of writing that encompassed fiction, verse, drama, criticism, and art history.","Published among his notable works, Confessions of a Young Man stands as one of the identified titles associated with George Moore, an Irish writer who worked across an unusually wide range of forms during a career spanning more than five decades.",{"@graph":12,"@context":48},[13,25],{"@id":14,"name":6,"@type":15,"sameAs":16,"birthDate":22,"deathDate":23,"description":24},"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q965927","Person",[14,17,18,19,20,21],"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moore_(novelist)","https://viaf.org/viaf/22160365/","https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79133143","https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL141618A","https://d-nb.info/gnd/118736787","1852-02-24","1933-01-21","Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist (1852-1933)",{"@type":26,"author":27,"headline":30,"isBasedOn":31,"mainEntity":32,"reviewedBy":33,"articleBody":9,"dateCreated":34,"dateModified":35,"additionalProperty":36,"creativeWorkStatus":47},"Article",{"name":28,"@type":29},"Editorial Team","Organization","George A. 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You see, I except mothers and sisters; the female is not a religious animal. If she were, the world would have ceased long ago.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":69,"quote_text":70,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":71,"source":72,"quote_tag":73,"commentary":74},3677301,"I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nGeorge A. Moore, an Irish philosopher and novelist, penned these words likely in the late 19th or early 20th century, a time when the notion of a universal, one-size-fits-all spirituality was gaining traction. Moore, known for his skepticism and individualism, was likely responding to the growing influence of institutionalized religion and the commercialization of spirituality. This quote reflects his thoughts on the importance of personal autonomy in matters of faith and spirituality.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nThe counter-intuitive truth here is that Moore is not rejecting the idea of spirituality altogether; rather, he's highlighting the futility of relying on external authorities or mass-produced solutions for spiritual growth. By emphasizing the need for individuals to \"make their own religion,\" he's pointing to the tension between the desire for spiritual connection and the inevitability of personal, subjective experience.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset today, professionals and creatives can benefit from embracing their own, unique spiritual or philosophical frameworks, rather than seeking salvation or validation from external sources. By taking ownership of their own meaning-making processes, they can cultivate a sense of purpose and direction that is authentic and sustainable.",{"id":76,"quote_text":77,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":78,"source":79,"quote_tag":80,"commentary":81},3677298,"An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],"**The Backstory**\n\nThis enigmatic quote is likely from George A. Moore's letter to a friend, written around 1890s-1900s. During this period, Moore was grappling with the changing literary landscape and his own philosophical ideas about aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology. He was intensely preoccupied with the nature of truth, reality, and art.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nMoore's statement reveals a profound paradox: that an idea or work can simultaneously lose and gain qualities over time. This seemingly contradictory assertion highlights the dynamic interplay between perception, context, and the passage of time. The paradox underscores how our understanding of a work can shift as we grow intellectually, experientially, and culturally.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nTo apply this mindset today, modern creatives and thinkers should cultivate a willingness to revise their perspectives and assessments over time. By acknowledging that their initial thoughts or creations may be subject to reinterpretation and evolution, they can foster an open-minded approach to learning, criticism, and artistic growth.",{"id":83,"quote_text":84,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":85,"source":86,"quote_tag":87,"commentary":50},3677295,"An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":89,"quote_text":90,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":91,"source":92,"quote_tag":93,"commentary":50},3677294,"Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":95,"quote_text":96,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":97,"source":98,"quote_tag":99,"commentary":50},3677291,"I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days!",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":101,"quote_text":102,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":103,"source":104,"quote_tag":105,"commentary":50},3677289,"The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":107,"quote_text":108,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":109,"source":110,"quote_tag":111,"commentary":50},3677285,"'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":113,"quote_text":114,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":115,"source":116,"quote_tag":117,"commentary":50},3677280,"To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"currentPage":119,"totalPages":120,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":121},1,3,10]