Quotes from Robert G. Ingersoll

The brain is natural. Its food is natural. The result, thought, must be natural. The supernatural can be constructed with no material except the natural.

We also know that the Old Testament asserted the existence of witches. According to that Holy Book, Jehovah was a believer in witchcraft, and said to his chosen people: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

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

In the presence of the unknown, all have an equal right to think.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

The suicide wants the very thing that a coward fears.

After all, death is not so terrible as joyless life.

As long as there shall be pain and failure, want and sorrow, agony and crime, men and women will untie life's knot and seek the peace of death.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

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.

Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.

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.

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.

In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

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

One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.