Ofurhetjur Efahyggjunnar - 1. Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)

"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."

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."

"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."

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

"If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith."

"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds."

"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

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

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

"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)