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Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.
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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I do not believe in loving enemies I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man can afford to keep the viper of revenge in his heart. But I believe in justice, in self-defense.
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If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.
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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
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The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
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If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
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Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread - a dangerous enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
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The triumph of justice is the only peace.
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With soap, baptism is a good thing.
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On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
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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.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
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All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.
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