671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is no evidence that God exists - that this world is governed by a being of infinite goodness, wisdom and power, but I do not pretend to know.

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.

The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.