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
civilization healthy foundation
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
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.
civilization disease
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
civilization waste products
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
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.