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Just to the extent that the Bi...

Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

No man of sense in the whole w...

No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

Catholicism is contrary to hum...

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

The Catholic Church is a thous...

The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

As a matter of fact, no one kn...

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

Where is the soul? . . . I ref...

Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

This, in my judgment, is the h...

This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow; third, enjoy today.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

Nothing discloses character li...

Nothing discloses character like the use of power.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

If the reason I give is a good...

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

Arguments cannot be answered w...

Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

Cruelty hardens and degrades, ...

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

He [The Improved Man] will enj...

He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear of death. About the grave, there will be no terrors, and his life will end as serenely as the sun rises.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

It cannot be said too often th...

It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would control actions. That which increases the sum of human happiness is moral; and that which diminishes the sum of human happiness is immoral. . . . Blind, unreasoning obedience is the enemy of morality.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

There is more real devotional ...

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

Language is not subtle enough,...

Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

Music was born of love. Had th...

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

The ideas of right and wrong c...

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

To avoid pain we must know the...

To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

Everyone should be taught the ...

Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

There is in all artists a litt...

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

Robert G. Ingersoll 590 quotes

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