William Ralph Inge
William Ralph Inge
William Ralph Inge KCVOwas 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 June 1860
William Ralph Inge quotes about
happiness success happy
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
government democracy vote
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
philosophy mean thinking
Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
perspective live-for-others trouble
They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
love-is free-love holy
All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
sentimental disillusioned prove
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
gambling barbarians disease
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
views
To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
powerful men average
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.
civilization boredom revolution
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
church half speak
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
originality plagiarism unconscious
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
civilization healthy foundation
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
food verbs said
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.