William Ralph Inge Quotes

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• The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
• Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
• A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have…
• Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a…
• The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant…
• In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if…
• The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
• A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
• Originality is undetected plagiarism.
• Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
• 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…
• Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
• The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon…
• Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right…
• The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
• Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
• 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…
• The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color…
• The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses…
• To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

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