146 Total Quotes
Robert Ingersoll Quotes
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result.
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
If Christ, in fact, said "I came not to bring peace but a sword," it is the only prophecy in the New Testament that has been literally fulfilled
My principal objections to orthodox religion are two - slavery here and hell hereafter
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead
I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish
It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the guidance of mankind; and yet among them is not found Thou shalt believe The Bible
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
If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.