The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently… — 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 Copy Share Image
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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 Copy Share Image
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will… — 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 and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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 Copy Share Image
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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 servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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 the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
