When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of… — 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
