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William Inge
English
Clergyman
Born:
Jun 6
,
1860
Died:
Feb 26
,
1954
Faith
Himself
Life
Man
People
Will
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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
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
William Inge
Fear
Will
No Fear
Out
Put
Lighted
Years
Years Ago
Candle
Ever
Palestine
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
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