Robert G Ingersoll quotes - Page : 7

" These heroes are dead. They died for liberty—they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or storm, each in the windowless palace of rest. Earth may run red with other wars—they are at peace. In the midst of battles, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. " # Marriage # Death and Dying # Heroes and Heroism

" Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud—and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing. " # Language # Love # Death and Dying

" Is there beyond the silent night An endless day? Is death a door that leads to light? We cannot say. " # Death and Dying # Love # Silence

" A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility. " # Crime and Criminals # God # Impossibility

" 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. " # Truth # Society # Miracles

" A good deed is the best prayer. " # Prayer # Deeds and Good Deeds # Action

" A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation. " # Fear # Morality # Obedience

" A true marriage is a natural concord and agreement of souls, a harmony in which discord is not even imagined; it is a mingling so perfect that only one seems to exist; all other considerations are lost; the present seems to be eternal. In this supreme moment there is no shadow — or the shadow is as luminous as light. And when two beings thus love, thus unite, this is the true marriage of soul and soul. That which is said before the altar, or minister, or magistrate, or in the presence of witnesses, is only the outward evidence of that which has already happened within; it simply testifies to a union that has already taken place — to the uniting of two mornings of hope to reach the night together. " # Marriage # Death and Dying # Love

" Above all creeds, above all religions, after all, is that divine thing, — Humanity. " # Religion

" Above the natural, man cannot rise. There can be deformed ideas; as there are deformed persons. There may be religions monstrous and misshapen, but they were naturally produced. The world is to each man according to each man. It takes the world as it really is and that man to make that man's world. " # Politicians and Politics # Religion # Nature