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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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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.
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This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.
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Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .
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Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
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There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.
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Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)
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As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
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Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone.
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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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We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood that there is nothing mysterious about them that they are simply transparent falsehoods.
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Commerce is the great civilizer.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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