671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the Old Testament. It is only when we discard the idea of a deity, the idea of cruelty or goodness in nature, that we are able ever to bear with patience the ills of life. I feel that I am neither a favorite nor a victim. Nature neither loves nor hates me.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.

Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.