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William Ralph Inge
English
Clergyman
About the author
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.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Life
#Habit
#Consciousness
#Performance
#Connection
#Habits
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Will
#Spirit
#Age
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.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Rest
#Religion
#Creation
#Doubt
#Devil
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Belief
#Faith
#Values
#Reality
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Consequences
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Society
#United
#Nation
#Hatred
#Delusion
#Ancestry
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#May
#Man
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#God
#People
#Man
#Nature
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Past
#May
#Events
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Life
#Hope
#Theater
#Reflection
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Sense
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.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Time
#Conscience
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Will
#Solution
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Wisdom
#Mankind
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Freedom
#Enemies
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Art
#Trade
#Literature
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Trouble
#Interest
#Worry
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Christianity
#Christian
#Radical
#Optimism
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Trying
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Originality
#Plagiarism
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,
English
Clergyman
#Opportunity
#Prayer
#Gentleman
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Life
#Public
#Opinion
#Content
#Public opinion
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#People
#Being
#Cause
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Education
#Knowledge
#Values
#Facts
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Sheep
#Opinion
#Vegetarianism
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
William Ralph Inge,
English
Clergyman
#Popular
#Religion
#Philosophy
#Superstition