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Famous William Ralph Inge Quotes
“The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.”
“There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.”
Source: Labels & Libels
Source: Outspoken essays
“Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.”
Source: Outspoken essays
“Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.”
“The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.”
“Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.”
“Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.”
“Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.”
“The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.”
Source: Studies of English Mystics: St. Margaret's Lectures, 1905
“Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.”
Source: Labels & Libels
“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”
Source: Assessments and Anticipations
“We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.”
“I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.”
“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”
Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean
Source: Our present discontents
“No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.”
Source: Assessments and Anticipations
“The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.”
Source: The Victorian Age
Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean
“Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.”