Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)

Quotes

• Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.

• I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

• If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

• Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

• Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence.
  Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

• In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments. There are consequences.

• In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment; there are consequences.

• It is a Blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough to stand by his own convictions

• Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

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

• Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

• There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.

• Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

• The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

• I'd rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

• There is no slavery but ignorance.

• If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

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