Superstition Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

9 Superstition quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Robert Green Ingersoll’s brief thoughts on superstition echo his advocacy for free thought. In these nine excerpts he challenges the hold of unfounded beliefs with clear, rational language.

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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

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The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

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The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

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Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or…

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Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence…

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There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been…

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All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes…

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“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has…

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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…

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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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