All William Ralph Inge Quotes
- For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of… Animal
- There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to… Been
- Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. Battle
- All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. All
- Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel… Affinity
- 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… Adopt
- To marry is to get a binocular view of life. Binocular
- We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances. According
- God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into… Adversity
- The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. Church
- The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons. According
- There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke. Aspiration
- When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of… Adam
- But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that… Acquisitiveness
- Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. Fear
- The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an… All
- No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the word begins in… Been
- It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally. All
- Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal. Almost Invariably
- Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. Bereavement
- Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some… Act
- 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… Act
- What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. Brainstorming
- Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. Counting
- We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. Beings