Dean Inge

William Ralph Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, Dean Inge.

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Date of birth:
6th June, 1860
Date of death:
26th February, 1954
"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."
― Dean Inge
Topic(s): Science
"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."
― Dean Inge
Topic(s): Wisdom
"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."
― Dean Inge
Topic(s): Faith
"Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them."
― Dean Inge
Topic(s): Government
"Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove."
― Dean Inge
Topic(s): Faith
"All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena."
― Dean Inge
Topic(s): Faith
"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."
― Dean Inge
Topic(s): Faith
"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it."
― Dean Inge
Topic(s): Government

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