Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bullying the enlightened Present. The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle... the entire structure.
Fear is religion, courage is science. - Robert Green Ingersoll
Fear is religion, courage is science.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, wi… - Robert Green Ingersoll
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, wi…
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon. - Robert Green Ingersoll
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. - Robert Green Ingersoll
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. - Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise! - Robert Green Ingersoll
Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. - Robert Green Ingersoll
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. - Robert Green Ingersoll
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his? - Robert Green Ingersoll
And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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