671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless multitude and the gods. They were the carriers of flags of truce. At the court of heaven they presented the cause of man, and upon the labor of the deceived they lived.

The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.