William Inge Quotes

William Inge
English Clergyman
Born: Jun 6, 1860
Died: Feb 26, 1954
Faith Himself Life Man People Will
Related authors: Charles Kingsley George Whitefield John Wesley Matthew Henry Sydney Smith Thomas Becket Thomas Fuller William Pollard
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 Inge
Environmental Religion Animal Feathers Rest Devil Doubt Creation Fur Our Distant Enslaved Would Able Badly Beyond Cousins Were Human Depict Form Formulate Human Form Treated
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. William Inge
Patriotism Hatred Nation Society Ancestry Neighbours About Delusion Common United
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. William Inge
Sheep Wolf Favor Remains Vegetarianism Opinion Pass Different While Useless Resolutions
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. William Inge
Happiness Happy People Cause Those Seem Except Particular Being Happiest Happiest People Being Happy Who
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts. William Inge
Thoughts Soul Color Dyed Leisure
Originality is undetected plagiarism. William Inge
Plagiarism Originality
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences. William Inge
Consequences Punishments Only Rewards
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. William Inge
Art Best Communication Half Trade Literature Flourishes
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. William Inge
Government Democracy Experiment Only Disadvantage Weighing Instead Merely Counting Votes Obvious Them
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. William Inge
Life Hope Reflection Before Course Improve Maybe Theater
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. William Inge
Faith Reality Values Absolute True True Faith Belief
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. William Inge
Events Matter Past Those Divided Never May Happened In The Past Which Roughly
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. William Inge
Religion Become Philosophy Enslave Only Superstition Popular Necessary
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. William Inge
Wisdom Wise Degree Sense Uncommon Common Common Sense
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. William Inge
Time Character Before Hundred Hundred Years Born About Proper He Years Child Influence
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. William Inge
Saw Would Horse Shapes Human Human Beings Them Us Tolerate Beings
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. William Inge
Faith Spiritual Natural World Values Consists Recognition Behind Essentially Apart Natural Phenomena Phenomena
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. William Inge
Love Death Grief Happy World Stronger More Remembered Clearly Proved Friends Itself Than Intercourse Eternal Consecrated Belongs
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 will prove to be true. William Inge
Faith Will Be True Expectation Determines Rational True Prove Were Confident Which Us Choice Certain Act Certain Things Things
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 more to learn than to teach. William Inge
Science Men Philosophies Philosophy Must Follow Adopt More Constructed Learn Scientific Does Praising Very Than Which Poor Much Teach
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time. William Inge
Time World Beginning Down Universe Must Running Wound Date Could Had Knew Name Like Been Clock End Up Which
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. William Inge
Wise Man Wise Man Value Relative He Knows Who Things
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. William Inge
Plagiarism Originality
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. William Inge
Reality Sheep Wolf Favor Only Remains Vegetarianism Takes Make Opinion Pass Quarrel Different While Useless Resolutions
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. William Inge
Life Feast Share Without Up Get Your Paying
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 in ourselves. William Inge
Faith Ourselves Risk Impelled Feel Contains Attraction Make Venture Always Affinity Which Element
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