45 ordspråk av Dean Inge
Dean Inge
 Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking. |
| The belief in progress, not as an ideal but as an indisputable fact, not as a task for humanity but as a law of Nature, has been the working faith of the West for about a hundred and fifty years. |
| The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. |
| The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. |
| The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's. |
| The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born |
| The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts |
| The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. |
| The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. |
| There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences. |
| There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggle. "You forget," said the Devil, with a chuckle, "that I have been evolving too." |
| To marry is to get a binocular view of life. |
| We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. |
| What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. |
| When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve: "My dear, we live in an age of transition." |
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