Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Robert Green Ingersoll on Wise Famous Quotes.
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation ...
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.
A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.
The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.
There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.
Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.
Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.
If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.
George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.
The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.
The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.
Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.
If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.