Author: William Inge

Quotes

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.

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.

- William Inge

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

- William Inge

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

- William Inge

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.

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.

- William Inge

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

- William Inge

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

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

- William Inge

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

- William Inge

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

- William Inge

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

- William Inge

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