It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise! — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up. — 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
Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty… — 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… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I want it so that every minister will be not a parrot, not an owl sitting upon a dead limb of the… — 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
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one… — 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
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