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Rather Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather…
- The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by…
- I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
- I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
- I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
- As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave,…
- Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you…
- The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry…
More Rather Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov