Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. ✨ Robert Gree…

Robert Green Ingersoll
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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc
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I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.' ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.2984, Library of Alexandria
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music. ✨ Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). Ingersoll the Magnificent: To w … ▶
Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed account of things that never occurred. It is useless to fill the in … ▶
Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a cr … ▶
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). The works of Robert G. Ingersoll, p.114, Library of Alexandria

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. ✨ Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc

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