Top 100 Inge Quotes
#2. Jutta whispers, A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn't let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren't we half-breeds too? Aren't we half our mother, half our father?
Anthony Doerr
#3. We have a large circle - all of them anti-Hitler," one participant told Inge. "And each of these friends has his own separate circle which is anti-Hitler, and so on and so forth: a great underground network against Hitler. If only someone could get them to act collectively.
Russell Freedman
#4. 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
#5. I can tell by now that you are wondering whether I can be trusted as a narrator. Why didn't I dump Inge and head for a Singles Bar? The answer is her breasts.
Jeanette Winterson
#6. You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard.
Peer Steinbruck
#7. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
William Ralph Inge
#8. To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
Dean Inge
#10. Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall
dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.
William Ralph Inge
#11. 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.
William Ralph Inge
#13. A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
William Ralph Inge
#14. The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
William Ralph Inge
#15. Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
William Ralph Inge
#17. All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
William Ralph Inge
#18. Knowledge is key, without knowledge, leadership, and action plans that fit the actual challenges, all of our businesses and organizations are lost. By providing training, offering moments to come together and exchange best practices all of us can stay on top of our field.
Inge Ignatia De Waard
#19. Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
William Ralph Inge
#20. 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.
William Ralph Inge
#21. Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.
Inge Morath
#23. Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Dean Inge
#24. Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
William Ralph Inge
#25. Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
William Inge
#27. 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.
William Ralph Inge
#28. I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
Dean Inge
#30. The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Dean Inge
#31. Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.
Inge De Bruijn
#33. 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.
William Ralph Inge
#34. I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
William Inge
#35. 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 Ralph Inge
#37. Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
William Ralph Inge
#38. You can't come up with ideas if you don't see first.
Inge Druckrey
#39. Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
William Ralph Inge
#40. The end is but a new beginning for the eternal Ba.
Inge H. Borg
#42. We read history in order not to have to repeat it.
Inge Scholl
#43. Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
William Inge
#44. It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
Dean Inge
#45. It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.
William Inge
#46. Therefore from the storehouse of His Passion I borrow the price of my debt,
William Ralph Inge
#47. Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
William Ralph Inge
#48. Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.
Inge De Bruijn
#49. Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
William Ralph Inge
#50. Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
William Ralph Inge
#51. It is a harder and a nobler task to preserve detachment in a crowd than in a cell; the little daily sacrifices of family life are often a greater trial than self-imposed mortifications.
William Ralph Inge
#53. Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
William Ralph Inge
#57. Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.
William Ralph Inge
#58. 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.
Dean Inge
#59. The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
Dean Inge
#60. There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.
William Ralph Inge
#61. I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
Inge De Bruijn
#62. From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men
William Inge
#63. All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
Dean Inge
#64. 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.
Dean Inge
#65. We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge
#66. The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
William Ralph Inge
#67. Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
William Ralph Inge
#69. Millions of tiny arthropod feet swarmed over me until my entire body was enveloped. They
Inge-Lise Goss
#70. A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
William Ralph Inge
#71. A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.
William Ralph Inge
#72. 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.
William Ralph Inge
#73. 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.
Dean Inge
#74. Events in the past maybe roughly divided into those which and probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge
#76. Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
Dean Inge
#78. A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
Dean Inge
#79. The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
William Ralph Inge
#80. The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.
William Ralph Inge
#81. The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge
#82. 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.
Dean Inge
#83. Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
William Ralph Inge
#85. The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge
#86. The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
William Ralph Inge
#87. Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
William Ralph Inge
#88. 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.
Dean Inge
#89. We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
Dean Inge
#90. Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice ... to be intelligent?
William Inge
#91. In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge
#92. Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
Dean Inge
#93. Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.
William Inge
#94. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge
#95. It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
William Ralph Inge
#96. Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.
William Inge
#97. A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
William Ralph Inge
#98. To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
William Ralph Inge
#99. I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
William Ralph Inge
#100. The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Dean Inge
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