Quotes from William R. Inge

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except the fact that they are so...