The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
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Works
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About The Holy Bible
Heretics and Heresies: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
Humboldt From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
Individuality From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
Ingersoll the Magnificent
On the Gods and Other Essays
Some Mistakes of Moses
Superstition and Other Essays
The Christian Religion An Enquiry
The Ghosts and Other Lectures
The Gods and Other Lectures
The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol 1: Lectures
The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. Iii
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IX
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. VII
Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
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Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.
With soap baptism is a good thing.
In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
In the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year's fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years.
The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.