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• Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

  William Ralph Inge

  Ends, Experiments

  William Ralph Inge (1918). “The Philosophy of Plotinus: The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917-1918”

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• Religion is caught, not taught.

  William Ralph Inge

  Religion, Taught, Caught

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• Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

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  Society, Age, Next

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• The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

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  Philosophy, History, Mind

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• Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

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  Patriotic, Patriotism, Noble

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

  William Ralph Inge

  Church, Half, Speak

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• Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

  William Ralph Inge

  Survival, Population, Fit

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• The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Men, Progress, Obstacles

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

  William Ralph Inge

  Views

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• The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

  William Ralph Inge

  Simplicity, Soul, Poverty

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• A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

  William Ralph Inge

  Spiritual, Men, Grace

  William Ralph Inge (1934). “Vale”

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• Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

  William Ralph Inge

  Government, Democracy, Vote

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• A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

  William Ralph Inge

  Hatred, Patriotism, Politics

  Sagittarius and George.

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• They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

  William Ralph Inge

  Perspective, Live For Others, Trouble

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• Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beautiful, Ideas, Doe

  William Ralph Inge (1907). “Studies of English Mystics: St. Margaret's Lectures, 1905”

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• It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

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  Real, Thinking, Two

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Cousin, Animal

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• We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

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  Cutting, Clothes, Coats

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• The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

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  Age, Church, Widows

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• Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Originality, Plagiarism, Unconscious

  Quoted in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant (1927)

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• Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

  William Ralph Inge

  Independent, Men, Promise

  William Ralph Inge (1918). “The Philosophy of Plotinus: The Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews, 1917-1918”

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• The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Animal, Discovery, Blood

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• The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

  William Ralph Inge

  Food, Cooking, Verbs

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• Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

  William Ralph Inge

  Death, Grieving, Profound

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• To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

  William Ralph Inge

  Philosophy, Religion, Superstitions

  Idea of Progress (Romanes Lecture delivered at Oxford, 27 May 1920) p. 9

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