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William Ralph Inge Quotes


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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

There are two kinds of fools: one says, 'This is old, therefore it is good'; the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'
[Fools]

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

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

To seek for the truth, for the sake of knowing the truth, is one of the noblest objects a man can live for.
[Truth]

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
[Faith]

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

We shall have to fight the politician, who remembers only that the unborn have no votes and that since posterity has done nothing for us we need do nothing for posterity.
[Politics]

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
[Originality]

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

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
[Worry]


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