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William Ralph Inge

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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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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
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When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, My dear, we live in an age of transition.
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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.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
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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.
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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.
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Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.
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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world it has proved itself stronger than death.
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The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
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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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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
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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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No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.
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