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Danh ngôn của William Inge (Sứ mệnh: 6)

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
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.
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.
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.