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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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• Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

  William Ralph Inge

  Civilization, Waste, Products

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• Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

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  Nature, Action, Used

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Battle, Half

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• A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

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  Spiritual, Men, Grace

  William Ralph Inge (1934). “Vale”

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Views

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• Religion is caught, not taught.

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  Religion, Taught, Caught

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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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• The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

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  Philosophy, History, Mind

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• Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

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  Beautiful, Cousin, Animal

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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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• 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.

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  Perspective, Live For Others, Trouble

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• Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Originality, Plagiarism, Unconscious

  Quoted in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant (1927)

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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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• 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.

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  Expectations, Choices, Certain

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

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• Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

  William Ralph Inge

  Survival, Population, Fit

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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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• 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 man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

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  Trust, Peace, War

  Philosophy of Plotinus Lecture 22 (1923)

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• The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Men, Progress, Obstacles

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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

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  Food, Cooking, Verbs

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• Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

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  Heart, Hatred, Humans

  William Ralph Inge (1899). “Christian Mysticism: Considered in Eight Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford”

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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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• 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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