Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes - Page 9

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• Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

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  Agency, Light, Waiting

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.322, Library of Alexandria

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• The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!

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  Children, Book, School

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• I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.

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  People, Soul, Smallest

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

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  God, Religious, Hypocrite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

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• All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

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  Truth, Errors, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.774, Library of Alexandria

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• It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

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  Angel, Artist, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1076, Library of Alexandria

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• There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.

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  Hypocrisy, Enemy, Superstitions

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. : Complete”

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• Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.

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  Compassion, Rights, Courtesy

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• The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

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  Motivational, Death, Faith

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• We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.

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  Needs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.288, Library of Alexandria

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• Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

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  Choices, Matter, Belief

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• I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

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  Song, Intelligent, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4159, Library of Alexandria

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• The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.

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  Philosophy, Eye, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

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  Reading, Reform, Three

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.248, Library of Alexandria

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• Fear is religion, courage is science.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.152, Library of Alexandria

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• We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

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  Ignorant, Horizon, Honest

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.931, Library of Alexandria

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• Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

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  Inspirational, Revenge, Anger

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• If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.

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  Bible, Inspiration, Needs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4140, Library of Alexandria

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• I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

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  Night, Agony, Soul

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.291, Library of Alexandria

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• It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

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  Men, Years, Long

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Tributes and miscellany”

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• The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

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  Giving, Liberty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.289, Library of Alexandria

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• At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the founder of Christianity had plainly said: 'It is not necessary to believe in order to be saved; it is only necessary to do, and he who really loves his fellow-men, who is kind, honest, just and charitable, is to be forever blest' - if he had only said that, there would probably have been but little persecution.

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  Religious, Believe, Men

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• A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

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  Intelligent, Men, Miracle

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.875, Library of Alexandria

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• We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

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  Fear, Atheism, Sin

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.554, Library of Alexandria

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• Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

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  War, Ideas, Drug

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