Brain Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

16 Brain quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll’s rationalist voice shines through his brain‑centric sayings. Sixteen concise reflections challenge superstition and encourage clear, logical thinking about mental faculties.

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You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can…

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Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

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Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be…

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I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal…

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If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book…

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Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain…

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Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,…

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Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of…

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When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,…

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Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a…

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My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their…

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I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it…

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It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less…

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The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as…

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All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of…

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Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure…

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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

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Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will…

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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…

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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

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It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…

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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

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In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

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Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

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