We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — 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
It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors… Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow… — 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
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion 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
