The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here. — 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 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
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the… — 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
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
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty… — 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
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States.… — 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
