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William Ralph Inge [1860-1954] English

Rank: 101
Clergyman, Author

William Ralph Inge KCVO was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, Dean Inge.

Age, Communication, Education, Environmental, Faith, Happiness, Imagination, Knowledge, Patriotism, Religion, Society, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.		101
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.	Imagination	102
Originality is undetected plagiarism.		103
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.		104
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.	Education, Knowledge	105
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.	Environmental, Religion	106
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.		107
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.	Happiness	108
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.	Wisdom	109
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.		110
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.		111
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.	Age	112
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.	Patriotism, Society	113
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.		114
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.		115
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.		116
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.	Faith	117
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.		118
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.		119
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.		120
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.		121
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.		122
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.		123
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.		124
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.		125
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.		126
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.	Communication	201

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