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
men progress obstacles
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
revenge independence revolution
In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.
blessing government humans
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
age society next
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
men apes poor
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
knowledge men tree
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
color soul doubt
The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
religious men numbers
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.
logical adopted englishmen
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
beauty beautiful truth
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
wisdom littles mankind
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
sarcastic wise sarcasm
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
freedom technology enemy
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
rivals way institutions
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.