Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate. Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. 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. Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. 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 Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. The more liberty you give away the more you will have. 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. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
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