Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility. — Robert Green Ingersoll Impossibility Copy Share Image
It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Creeds Copy Share Image
Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth. — Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness Copy Share Image
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll Death Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses character like the use of power. — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics. — Robert Green Ingersoll Business Copy Share Image
If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else. — Robert Green Ingersoll Divine Copy Share Image
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where… — Robert Green Ingersoll Aristocracy Copy Share Image
If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain… — Robert Green Ingersoll Brain Copy Share Image
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Demonstration Copy Share Image
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Freedom Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurd Copy Share Image
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Affection Copy Share Image
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted. — Robert Green Ingersoll Clothes Copy Share Image
I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll Forgiveness Copy Share Image
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