We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply… — Robert Green Ingersoll Falsehood Copy Share Image
Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Business Copy Share Image
I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. — Robert Green Ingersoll Business Copy Share Image
The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining… — Robert Green Ingersoll Change Copy Share Image
Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor… — Robert Green Ingersoll Endeavor Copy Share Image
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor — Robert Green Ingersoll Differences Copy Share Image
All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin. — Robert Green Ingersoll College Copy Share Image
The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Differences Copy Share Image
The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bears Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Appetite Copy Share Image
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Arrogance Copy Share Image
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Beast Copy Share Image
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne;… — Robert Green Ingersoll Benches Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Brain Copy Share Image
I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this. — Robert Green Ingersoll Another world Copy Share Image
The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Another life Copy Share Image
The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except… — Robert Green Ingersoll Government Copy Share Image
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Anarchy Copy Share Image
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations… — Robert Green Ingersoll Education Copy Share Image
As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Barbarism Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Declaration Copy Share Image
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. — Robert Green Ingersoll Greatness Copy Share Image
Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince… — Robert Green Ingersoll Exiled Copy Share Image
If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Action Copy Share Image
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. — Robert Green Ingersoll Bribe Copy Share Image
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. — Robert Green Ingersoll Book Copy Share Image
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. — Robert Green Ingersoll Books Copy Share Image
He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Benediction Copy Share Image
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer. — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
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