Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes & Quotations

Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

» Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

» In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

» The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.

» I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

» Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

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

» Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...

» The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

» I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

» Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

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