If I had my way, I'd make health catching instead of disease.
Robert G. IngersollThe doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.
Robert G. IngersollStichwörter: reason insanity eternity absurd hell ignorance doctrine bliss infamous
The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. IngersollMusic expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Robert G. IngersollStichwörter: music
There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.
Robert G. IngersollNo one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.
Robert G. IngersollStichwörter: science ignorance unknown incomprehensible complex god-of-the-gaps
Nothing but truth is immortal.
Robert G. IngersollStichwörter: truth immortality
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
Robert G. IngersollStichwörter: common-sense superstition epithet blasphemy
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.
Robert G. IngersollIf the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.
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