Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. — 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
At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon… — 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
Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature; the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention… — 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
![“Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.” quote by Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f49/robert-green-ingersoll-361_believe_where-is-the-soul-i-refuse-to-believe-an_755809.jpg)
