Words matter. These are the best William Inge Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one’s own mind, not other people’s.
Don’t get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
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.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
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.
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
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.
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
There are no rewards or punishments – only consequences.
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
