Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes - Page 19

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• The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wise, Powerful, Pride

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.303, Library of Alexandria

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• Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.

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  God, Real, Ignorance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.31

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• Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Atheism, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Herman Eugene Kittredge (1912). “Interviews”

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• I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there are certain ideas upon certain subjects that they must never express; that they must go through life with a pretence as a shield; that their neighbors will think much more of them if they will only keep still; and that above all is a God who despises one who honestly expresses what he believes.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.758, Library of Alexandria

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• If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Effort, Atheism, Would Be

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

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  Atheism, World, Superstitions

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Herman Eugene Kittredge (1909). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Light, Race, Joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1791, Library of Alexandria

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• Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

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  Years, Ignorant, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.484, Library of Alexandria

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• Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.

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  Years, Catholic, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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• the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Rosary, Plowing, Firsts

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1313, Library of Alexandria

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• Every library is an arsenal.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Library, Arsenal

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.175, Library of Alexandria

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• Commerce is the great civilizer.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Commerce

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2143, Library of Alexandria

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• I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Vote

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1403, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Soul, Atheism

  "Ingersoll the Magnificent". Book by Joseph L. Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1957.

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• I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature; the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.

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  Believe, Soul, Attention

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.287, Library of Alexandria

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• At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

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  Men, Growth, Prejudice

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

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  Independence, Liberty, Genius

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.83, Library of Alexandria

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• It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

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  Truth, Miracle, Scorn

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1688, Library of Alexandria

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• They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

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  Atheism, Example, Barbarians

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2212, Library of Alexandria

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• Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Abuse, Doe, Argument

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• Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, Real, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2169, Library of Alexandria

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• Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Writing, Waiting, Liberty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.224, Library of Alexandria

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• The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.

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  Hypocrite, Thinking, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2195, Library of Alexandria

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• I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

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  Atheism, Pestilence, Imagine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.282, Library of Alexandria

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• Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Powerful, Believe, Names

  Robert Green Ingersoll “Heretics and Heresies: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'”, Library of Alexandria

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