William Ralph Inge Quotes

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Silence, Break

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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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• The happy people are those who are producing something.

  William Ralph Inge

  Inspirational, People, Happy People

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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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• Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

  William Ralph Inge

  Nature, Action, Used

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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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• The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

  William Ralph Inge

  Freedom, Technology, Enemy

  End of an Age (1948) ch. 4

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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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• 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 church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

  William Ralph Inge

  Church, Half, Speak

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• It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

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  Real, Thinking, Two

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• There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

  William Ralph Inge

  Punishment, Rewards, Consequence

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• Religion is caught, not taught.

  William Ralph Inge

  Religion, Taught, Caught

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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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• To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

  William Ralph Inge

  Views

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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.

  William Ralph Inge

  Hatred, Patriotism, Politics

  Sagittarius and George.

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Wise, Wisdom, Common Sense

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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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• Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

  William Ralph Inge

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Noble

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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