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
ends experiments
Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.
admiration institutions contempt
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
parent age paradise
When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."
grief stronger world
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.
expectations choices certain
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.
patriotic patriotism noble
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
happiness bored people
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
sarcastic wise sarcasm
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
punishment rewards consequence
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
hatred patriotism politics
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
horse cynical saws
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
mistake mind important
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
blessing government humans
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
moving reality issues
Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.