William Ralph Inge
"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
"إنه لأمر مدهش كم هي قليلة الحكمة التي يمكن بها حكم البشر، حين تكون تلك الحكمة القليلة ملكاً لهم."
William Ralph Inge
"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."
"الإيمان الحق هو التسليم بحقيقة القيم المطلقة."
William Ralph Inge
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
"الأمة مجتمع يوحده وهمٌ حول نسبه وكراهيةٌ مشتركة لجيرانه."
William Ralph Inge
"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."
"إن غاية التعليم ليست معرفة الحقائق، بل إدراك القيم."
William Ralph Inge
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
"لقد استعبدنا سائر المخلوقات الحيوانية، وأسأنا معاملة أقربائنا البعيدين من ذوي الفراء والريش سوءًا لا ريب فيه، لدرجة أنهم لو استطاعوا صياغة دين، لتخيلوا الشيطان في هيئة إنسان."
William Ralph Inge
"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due."
"القلق هو فائدة تُدفع على المتاعب قبل استحقاقها."
William Ralph Inge
"The happy people are those who are producing something."
"السعداء هم أولئك الذين يصنعون شيئًا."
William Ralph Inge
"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so."
"أسعد الناس هم من لا يملكون سبباً خاصاً لسعادتهم، سوى أنهم كذلك وحسب."
William Ralph Inge
"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor."
"لم أفهم قط لمَ يُعدّ انتقاصًا من الخالق أن نفترض له حسّ دعابة."
William Ralph Inge
"The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got."
"المرء العادي يغدو غنيًا حين يملك أكثر مما لديه بقليل."
William Ralph Inge
"Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience."
"يبدأ الإيمان كتجربة وينتهي كاختبار."
William Ralph Inge
"Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place."
"الإيمان هو فعل تكريس ذاتي، تتجلى فيه الإرادة والعقل والعواطف جميعاً."
William Ralph Inge
"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true."
"لا يضجر المرء أبدًا وهو يسعى لخلق الجمال أو اكتشاف الحقيقة."
William Ralph Inge
"The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace."
"تُظهر إحصائيات الانتحار أن الحياة، لغير المقاتلين على الأقل، تكون أكثر إثارة في الحرب منها في السلم."
William Ralph Inge
"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."
William Ralph Inge
"It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God."
William Ralph Inge
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