Dean Inge Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.”

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

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

“The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.”

“The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.”

“Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.”