William Ralph Inge Quotes

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• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

  William Ralph Inge

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

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• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

  William Ralph Inge

  Education, Knowledge, Facts

  Education (1917) ch. 2

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• To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

  William Ralph Inge

  Philosophy, Religion, Superstitions

  Idea of Progress (Romanes Lecture delivered at Oxford, 27 May 1920) p. 9

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• Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  William Ralph Inge (1939). “Our present discontents”

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• The happy people are those who are producing something.

  William Ralph Inge

  Inspirational, People, Happy People

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• Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

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  Spiritual, Joy, True Life

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• A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

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  Hatred, Patriotism, Politics

  Sagittarius and George.

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• A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

  William Ralph Inge

  Punishment, Rewards, Consequence

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• It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

  William Ralph Inge

  Sheep, Vegetarianism, Different

  Outspoken Essays: First Series "Patriotism" (1919)

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• Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

  William Ralph Inge

  Teacher, Good Teacher, Fees

  William Ralph Inge (1927). “The church in the world: collected essays”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

  William Ralph Inge

  Battle, Half

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• Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

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  Independent, Men, Promise

  William Ralph Inge (1918). “The Philosophy of Plotinus: The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917-1918”

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• The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

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  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

  William Ralph Inge

  Silence, Break

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• We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

  William Ralph Inge

  God, Thinking, Play

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• The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

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  Simplicity, Soul, Poverty

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• Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

  William Ralph Inge

  Government, Democracy, Vote

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• Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

  William Ralph Inge

  Death, Grieving, Profound

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• The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

  William Ralph Inge

  Food, Cooking, Verbs

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• Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

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  Sarcastic, Wise, Sarcasm

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Funny, Creativity, Originality

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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• Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

  William Ralph Inge

  Nature, Action, Used

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• Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

  William Ralph Inge

  Ends, Experiments

  William Ralph Inge (1918). “The Philosophy of Plotinus: The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917-1918”

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