| 43 Famous Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
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“If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish”
Astrology Quotes |
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“There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.”
Atheism Quotes |
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“If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise”
Catholicism Quotes |
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“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
Common sense Quotes |
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“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.”
Consequences Quotes |
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“The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory”
Credulity Quotes |
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“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
Education Quotes |
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“What has religion to do with facts? Nothing”
Facts Quotes |
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“Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin”
Heresy Quotes |
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“Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak”
Heresy Quotes |
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“The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory”
Historians Quotes |
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“Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.”
Ignorance Quotes |
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“Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope”
Immortality Quotes |
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“Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment”
Imprisonment Quotes |
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“We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased”
Juries and judges Quotes |
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“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”
Kindness Quotes |
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“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous”
Mediocrity Quotes |
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“In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.”
Nature Quotes |
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“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.”
Partnership Quotes |
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“The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure”
Purity Quotes |
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“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
Testing Quotes |
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“Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.”
Theology Quotes |
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“The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure”
Vulgarity Quotes |
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“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
Education Quotes |
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“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.”
Anger Quotes |
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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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