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Robert Green Ingersoll

Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll (/ˈɪŋɡərˌsɔːl, -ˌsɒl, -səl/; August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899) was an American lawyer, father of the feminist Eva Ingersoll Brown, a Civil War veteran, politician, and orator of the United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. He was nicknamed "The Great Agnostic".

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If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

Christ, Depend, Doe, Fact, Facts, Priest

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. . . . No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

Intelligent, Men, Miracle, Perform, Pretended, Honest

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Children, Doe, Drown, God, My Children, Same

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

Civilization, Improvisation, Invention, Men, Perception

Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.

Art, Floods, June, Language, Longings, Sunshine

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

Guided, Highest, Humanist, Intelligence, Kindness

We rise by lifting others.

Helping Others, Lifting, Public Service, Rise, Society

I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .

Believe, Ideals, Life, Loyalty, Nobler

Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the inverted sky lit with the eternal stars -- an intellectual ocean -- toward which all rivers ran, and from which now the isles and continents of thought receive their dew and rain.

Lit, Rain, Revenge, Shakespeare, Sky, Stars

A good deed is the best prayer.

Deed, Deeds, Good, Good Deeds, Prayer

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

Answers, Barbarian, Barbarians, Coffins, Intelligently, Whence

The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.

Children, Failure, Honesty, Lying, Sits, Worst

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

Charles, College, Country, Religious, Rolled

If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

Enough, Everybody, Ifs, Nobody, Too Much

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

Catholicism, Feet, Man, Men, Religion, Teaches

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Atheism, Know, Religion, Religions, World

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Common, Education, School, Sense, Thousand, Wisdom

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Dollars, Forgive Me, Forgiveness, Forgives, God, Pay

Do the best that can be done and then. . . be resigned.

Done, Life, Resigned

I am going to put the Bible out of business.

Bible, Biblical, Business

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