William R. IngeThinkers

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Boredom is virtually impossible when one is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

Civilization reaches no lower than our clothes. humanity is still essentially yahoo-manity.

Eating is, in its various conjugations, a summation of the whole of nature; to eat or to be eaten.

Experience is a good teacher, though her fees are terribly high.

Health is something we do not take nearly seriously enough. We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Hero worship is pooled self-esteem.

History is roughly divided into those events which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

Idleness is not used.

A Nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

A Nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.