Author: William Inge

Quotes

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

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

- 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

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

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

- William Inge

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

- William Inge

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

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

- 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

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

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