138 Quotes by William Ralph Inge

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

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

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.