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Men Quotes by William Ralph Inge
- 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…
- The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
- 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…
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
- Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
- Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
- The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
- A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
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