671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

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.

...in every religion the priest insists on five things - First: There is a God. Second: He has made known his will. Third: He has selected me to explain this message. Fourth: We will now take up a collection; and Fifth: Those who fail to subscribe will certainly be damned.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.