Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Authors Copy Share Image
Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Arrogance Copy Share Image
To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Celibacy Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurd Copy Share Image
For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. — Robert Green Ingersoll Habits Copy Share Image
The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests? — Robert Green Ingersoll Credit Copy Share Image
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Hypocrisy Copy Share Image
A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness Copy Share Image
All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Beauty Copy Share Image
Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make… — Robert Green Ingersoll Failure Copy Share Image
“Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Anger Copy Share Image
Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Brave Copy Share Image
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Honesty Copy Share Image
If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through… — Robert Green Ingersoll Altars Copy Share Image
Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Alive Copy Share Image
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Desire Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Anti religious Copy Share Image
At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurd Copy Share Image
The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal. — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry. — Robert Green Ingersoll Anger Copy Share Image
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime. — Robert Green Ingersoll Comedy Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Bible Copy Share Image
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia. — Robert Green Ingersoll Dyspepsia Copy Share Image
He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice. — Robert Green Ingersoll Enemies Copy Share Image
