Joy Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

24 Joy quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Ingersoll’s secular philosophy celebrates happiness as a rational, human right. Across twenty‑four statements, he argues that joy thrives when freed from superstition and embraced with reason.

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Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

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Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.

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When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors…

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Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know…

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Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of…

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Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations…

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Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

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Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

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All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions.…

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Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the…

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I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every…

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I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has…

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Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle…

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Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.…

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Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and…

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When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain…

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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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I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that…

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He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For…

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If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through…

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If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed…

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Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States.…

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Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of…

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“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades…

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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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