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Dean Inge

"Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction."

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"Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction."

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"All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena."
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"Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them."
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"If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things."
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"It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything."
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