Vain Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

2 Vain quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

All Vain quotes Robert Green Ingersoll’s page

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Image

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

Robert Green Ingersoll

Image

Other authors on Vain

More by Robert Green Ingersoll

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

Image

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Image

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Image

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

Image

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Image

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Image