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

  William Ralph Inge

  Silence, Break

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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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• The happy people are those who are producing something.

  William Ralph Inge

  Inspirational, People, Happy People

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• There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

  William Ralph Inge

  Punishment, Rewards, Consequence

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Battle, Half

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• They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

  William Ralph Inge

  Perspective, Live For Others, Trouble

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

  William Ralph Inge

  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.

  William Ralph Inge

  Hatred, Patriotism, Politics

  Sagittarius and George.

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Simplicity, Soul, Poverty

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• Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

  William Ralph Inge

  Society, Age, Next

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

  William Ralph Inge

  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.

  William Ralph Inge

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

  William Ralph Inge

  Prayer, Mean, Opportunity

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• The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

  William Ralph Inge

  Wise, Wisdom, Common Sense

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Expectations, Choices, Certain

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Labels & Libels”

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