24 Quotations by Dean William R. Inge
- 1. A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
- 2. Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. ...
- 3. Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way ...
- 4. Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.
- 5. How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret m ...
- 6. I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has ...
- 7. I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which ...
- 8. In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be ...
- 9. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of ...
- 10. Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge o ...
- 11. Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
- 12. Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that ...
- 13. Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for a ...
- 14. The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values
- 15. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
- 16. The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they a ...
- 17. The happy people are those who are producing something.
- 18. There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.
- 19. There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, therefore it is good." The other one says, "Th ...
- 20. To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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