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
average tyrants public-opinion
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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.
men average littles
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
man sit
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
bored discover imagination nobody trying
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
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.
beautiful cousin animal
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
This is old, therefore it is good”; the other says, “This is new, therefore it is better.
originality plagiarism unconscious
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
parent special pedestal
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
god thinking play
We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
teacher good-teacher fees
Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
spiritual world recognition
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
judging soldier battle
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.