The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true. Robert Green Ingersoll More Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll More Quotes From Robert Green Ingersoll I love to think of the whole universe together as one eternal fact. I love to think that everything is alive; that crystallization is itself a step toward joy. I love to think that when a bud bursts into blossom: it feels a thrill. I love to have the universe full of feeling and full of joy, and not full of simple dead, inert matter, managed by an old bachelor for all eternity. Robert Green Ingersoll simple joy thinking If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure. Robert Green Ingersoll effort atheism would-be Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased) Robert Green Ingersoll slavery form ignorance The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts. Robert Green Ingersoll palaces fit love They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for differing with him on the subject of the Trinity. They say that God says to me, "Forgive your enemies." I say, "I do;" but he says, "I will damn mine." God should be consistent. If he wants me to forgive my enemies he should forgive his. I am asked to forgive enemies who can hurt me. God is only asked to forgive enemies who cannot hurt him. He certainly ought to be as generous as he asks us to be. Robert Green Ingersoll forgiving hurt men Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. Robert Green Ingersoll academy built superstitions If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet. Robert Green Ingersoll abuse logic giving Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet. Robert Green Ingersoll agree feet steps Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature. Robert Green Ingersoll ignorance real god In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy. Robert Green Ingersoll truth-is lying world The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll inner-peace happiness way There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help. Robert Green Ingersoll clouds men hands By nature all people are alike, but by education become different Robert Green Ingersoll different people school I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie. Robert Green Ingersoll mother kindness children Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth. Robert Green Ingersoll lips sacred It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own. Robert Green Ingersoll journey giving men Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas. Robert Green Ingersoll drug war ideas Death is only perfect rest. Robert Green Ingersoll perfect death Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world. Robert Green Ingersoll adaptability commodity world When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy. Robert Green Ingersoll passion men philosophy
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