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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

The way to be happy is to make others so Picture Quote #1

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true Picture Quote #1

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different Picture Quote #1

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal Picture Quote #1

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth Picture Quote #1

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter Picture Quote #1

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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible Picture Quote #1

Death is only perfect rest Picture Quote #1

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot Picture Quote #1

Well, I would make health catching instead of disease Picture Quote #1

The fact is, very few men are right in everything Picture Quote #1

The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray Picture Quote #1

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No man with any sense of humor ever founded a religion Picture Quote #1

If we should put God in the Constitution there would be no room left for man Picture Quote #1

It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed Picture Quote #1

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed Picture Quote #1

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin Picture Quote #1

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We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods Picture Quote #1

To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom Picture Quote #1

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake Picture Quote #1

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane Picture Quote #1

When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain belief is necessary to ensure eternal joy, there is in that man no spirit of concession. He divides the whole world into saints and sinners, into believers and unbelievers, into God’s sheep and Devil’s goats, into people who will be glorified and people who are damned Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge! Picture Quote #1

No one infers a God from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science Picture Quote #1

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization Picture Quote #1

Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world’s history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love Picture Quote #1

All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book Picture Quote #1

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish Picture Quote #1

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The way to be happy is to make others so (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) By nature all people are alike, but by education become different (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) Death is only perfect rest (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) Well, I would make health catching instead of disease (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) The fact is, very few men are right in everything (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) No man with any sense of humor ever founded a religion (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) If we should put God in the Constitution there would be no room left for man (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) To know that the Bible is the literature of a barbarous people, to know that it is uninspired, to be certain that the supernatural does not and cannot exist - all this is but the beginning of wisdom (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain belief is necessary to ensure eternal joy, there is in that man no spirit of concession. He divides the whole world into saints and sinners, into believers and unbelievers, into God’s sheep and Devil’s goats, into people who will be glorified and people who are damned (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge! (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) No one infers a God from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world’s history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes) If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish (Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes)

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