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An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.
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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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
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You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
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Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.
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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
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If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the temple that the priest could not use, and it always happened that god wanted what his agents liked.
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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
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This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow third, enjoy today.
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The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.
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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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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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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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I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.
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One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
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Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.
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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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