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Robert G. Ingersoll on Birthday

1833–1899 United States

← All quotes by Robert G. Ingersoll

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The present is the child, and the necessary child, of all the past, and the mother of all the future.

How To Reform Mankind (1896)

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

What Is Religion? (1899)

Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us.

The Gods (1876)

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert G. Ingersoll (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.