I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.' — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
...in every religion the priest insists on five things - First: There is a God. Second: He has made known his will.… — 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
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
They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You need not go back four thousand years for heroines. The world is filled with them today. They do not belong to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the… — 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
