Robert Green Ingersoll
45 quotes
Biography
"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."
"The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success."
"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing."
"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."
"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."
"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."
"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."
"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."
"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."
"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."
"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."
"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."
"If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith."
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."
"My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."
"Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery."
"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."
"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."
"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
"My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."