If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity — Robert Green Ingersoll Hope Copy Share Image
In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bastille Copy Share Image
The truth is that nearly everybody is right about some things and wrong about most things; and if a man's testimony is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Man Copy Share Image
I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race… — Robert Green Ingersoll Business Copy Share Image
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 Absurd Copy Share Image
...in every religion the priest insists on five things - First: There is a God. Second: He has made known his will.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Aristocratic Copy Share Image
I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Belief Copy Share Image
For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion… — Robert Green Ingersoll Belief Copy Share Image
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind… — Robert Green Ingersoll Church Copy Share Image
We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Book Copy Share Image
All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does… — 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 Accumulation Copy Share Image
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Blessed 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
He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bears Copy Share Image
And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Differences Copy Share Image
The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 American liberty Copy Share Image
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Burden Copy Share Image
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Brain 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… — Robert Green Ingersoll Appetite Copy Share Image
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne;… — Robert Green Ingersoll Benches Copy Share Image
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Beast Copy Share Image
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Arrogance Copy Share Image
I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Death Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absolute power Copy Share Image
Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bears Copy Share Image
There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Bankruptcy Copy Share Image
I have no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my reason; no reverence for any book that teaches… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
![“He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.” quote by Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f65/robert-green-ingersoll-361_bears_he-the-improved-man-will-enjoy-not-only_1178912.jpg)
