William Ralph Inge

Quotes

• “No word in our language — not even "Socialism"— has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." … The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut…”
• “The old civilisation, with all the brilliant qualities which make many moderns regret its destruction, rested on too narrow a base. The woman and the slave were left out, the woman especially by the Greeks, and the slave by the Romans.”
• “Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.”
• “It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.”
• “It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”
• “The fruit of the tree of knowledge, always drives man from some paradise or other.”

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