Robert Green Ingersoll World Quotations

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

Hope is the consolation of the world.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. 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. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

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.