Time Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future

— Robert Green Ingersoll

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A God who gave his entire time for 40 years to the work of converting three millions of people, and succeeded in…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell…

— Robert Green Ingersoll