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William Ralph Inge Writer

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Jun 6, 1860
  • Died: Feb 26, 1954

William Ralph Inge KCVO was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, "Dean Inge."

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

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

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

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

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

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

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

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

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

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.