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

  William Ralph Inge

  Silence, Break

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• The happy people are those who are producing something.

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  Inspirational, People, Happy People

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• In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

  William Ralph Inge

  Philosophy, Men, Doe

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Battle, Half

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Views

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• There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

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  Punishment, Rewards, Consequence

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• Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

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  Nature, Action, Used

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

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  Government, Democracy, Vote

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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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• 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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• 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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• Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

  William Ralph Inge

  Civilization, Waste, Products

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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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