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Robert Green Ingersoll Inspirational Quotes (278)

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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.
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The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
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The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
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If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.
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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.
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It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving
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I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless.
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Nothing but truth is immortal.
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
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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.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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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
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If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
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Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
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It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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Whoever saw an angel barefooted?
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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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Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.
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