Dean Inge Quotes

#1. I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

Learned Hand

#2. A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

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#3. Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

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

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#5. Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

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#6. I want to fall to sleep with you,
and I could care less
whether it is in
layers upon layers
of clothing
or only our skin -
all I really want is to wake up
not knowing
where I end and you begin.

Beau Taplin

#7. 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.

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#8. Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

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#9. 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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#10. The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

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#11. Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

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#12. We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

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#13. Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

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#14. 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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#15. Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

Hugh Grant

#16. The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

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#17. 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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#18. In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

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#19. Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

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#20. 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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#21. The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

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#22. 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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#23. It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

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#24. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.

Rudolf Arnheim

#25. Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

Jean Anouilh

#26. The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

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#27. I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

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#28. Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

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#29. In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty pleasure.

Freddie Stroma

#30. To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

Dean Inge