It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise! — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide… — 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