William Ralph Inge Quotes
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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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]
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
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To seek for the truth, for the sake of knowing the truth, is one of the noblest objects a man can live for.
[Truth]
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
[Faith]
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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.
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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]
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We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
[Originality]
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
[Worry]
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