Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

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

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment

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

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

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.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

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

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

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous

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

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin

The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure