Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Destiny

Quotes about: Destiny

• If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Destiny, Farce

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.33

• Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Destiny, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4260, Library of Alexandria

• Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Destiny, Men, Ignorant

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.747, Library of Alexandria

• Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the inverted sky lit with the eternal stars -- an intellectual ocean -- toward which all rivers ran, and from which now the isles and continents of thought receive their dew and rain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Revenge, Rain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.616, Library of Alexandria

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