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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.

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Strong, Long, World

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Judging, Important, Deeds
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.287, Library of Alexandria

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

Robert Green Ingersoll
Book, Brain, Faults
Robert Green Ingersoll, Jeremiah Sullivan Black, George Park Fisher (1882). “The Christian Religion: A Series of Articles from the North American Review”

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Mother, Equality, Men
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.973, Library of Alexandria

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Honesty, Integrity, Character
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2445, Library of Alexandria

If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Too Much, Enough, Ifs
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1014, Library of Alexandria

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Ignorance, Miracle, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1070, Library of Alexandria

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Education, School, Men
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2838, Library of Alexandria

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

Robert Green Ingersoll
Believe, Men, Thinking
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1173, Library of Alexandria

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Joy, World, Dramatic
Robert Green Ingersoll, Herman Eugene Kittredge (1912). “Interviews”

I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth, to the end that man may free himself from superstitious fear, to the end that he may take advantage of the forces of nature to feed and clothe the world.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Believe, Men, Thinking
Robert Green Ingersoll (1905). “Lectures and Essays (a Selection)”

As long as woman regards the Bible as the charter of her rights, she will be the slave of man. The bible was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Men, Rights, Long

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Inspirational, Motivational, Heart
Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Religion, Facts
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.308, Library of Alexandria

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

Robert Green Ingersoll
People
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.103, Library of Alexandria

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Inspirational, Hope, Nature
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

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

Robert Green Ingersoll
Science, Experience, Scientific Method
The Gods

If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?

Robert Green Ingersoll
Thinking, Infinite Intelligence, Remember
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.324, Library of Alexandria

It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you love and won. And a woman who really loves a man does not see that he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; she always sees the same gallant gentleman who won her hand and heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Heart, Men, Thinking
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.209, Library of Alexandria

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Atheist, Intelligence, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2336, Library of Alexandria

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Hate, Religion, Church
Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.100, Library of Alexandria

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Lying, Miracle, Facts
Robert Green Ingersoll (1883). “Popular edition of col. Ingersoll's lectures. (Freethought publ. co.'s ed.).”

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Doubt, Atheism, Dogma

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

Robert Green Ingersoll
Atheist, Ignorance, Religion
Robert Green Ingersoll (1882). “Wit, Wisdom, Eloquence, and Great Speeches of Col. R. G. Ingersoll: Including Eloquent Extracts, Witty, Wise, Pungent, Truthful Sayings and Full Reports of the Great Speeches of this Celebrated Man, Together with the Funeral Oration at His Brother's Grave”

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