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William Inge Inspirational Quotes (128)

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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.
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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
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Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
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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.
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Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
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The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
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Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
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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.
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Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.
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My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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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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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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The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
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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.
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No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
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Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
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The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.
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