William Ralph Inge - Man Quotes

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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
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

William Ralph Inge
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
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

William Ralph Inge
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

William Ralph Inge
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or another. And even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

William Ralph Inge
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

William Ralph Inge