671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to say that I was the author of "A man's a man for 'a that," than to be perfectly sober and admit that I had lived and died a Scotch Presbyterian.

Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.

When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two. Nothing ever was, nothing ever can be more perfectly idiotic and absurd than the dogma of the Trinity.

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.