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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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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Lawyer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.
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I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
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You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.
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Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.
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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
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Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
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I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts... I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.
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There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science faith has been a hater of demonstration hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.
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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.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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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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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.
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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
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