Robert Green Ingersoll

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Biography - Robert Green Ingersoll:

American writer.
Born: 1833 - Died: 1899
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States

United States

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Ce que la lumière est aux yeux, ce que l'air est au poumon, ce que l'amour est au cœur, la liberté est à l'âme humaine.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Was Licht für die Augen ist, was Luft für die Lungen ist, was Liebe für das Herz ist, ist Freiheit für die Seele des Menschen.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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My spirit yearns for action, my breath for freedom.

Friedrich Schiller - The Robbers

Quotes for: love

Quotes about love:

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Gustav Jung - Über die Psychologie des Unbewussten /

Love, love, all the rest is nothing.

Jean de La Fontaine - Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon /

love

We have need of morality only for want of love.

André Comte-Sponville /

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.

Blanche Pierson /

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery /

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

All about love...

Quotes for: heart

Quotes about heart:

Hope stole into my heart against my will.

Jean Racine - Phèdre /

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery /

heart

The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

Great thoughts come from the heart.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

The long sobs
Of the violins
Of autumn
Hurt my heart
With a monotonous
Languor

Paul Verlaine /

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

All about heart...

Quotes for: soul

Quotes about soul:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel /

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine of Hippo /

At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

soul

For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

Pierre Corneille - Le Cid /

'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

All about soul...

Quotes for: freedom

Quotes about freedom:

One is not born, but rather becomes, free.

André Comte-Sponville - Présentations de la philosophie /

freedom

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

Nelson Mandela /

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt /

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard /

Article I – Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be founded only on the common good.

- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 /

All about freedom...

Quotes for: light

Quotes about light:

All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

To love beauty is to see light.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables /

Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Götz von Berlichingen /

A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light.

All about light...

Quotes for: air

The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings /

Robert Green Ingersoll also said...

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll /

Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert Green Ingersoll /

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.

Robert Green Ingersoll

freedom of expression

Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.

Robert Green Ingersoll

self-esteem

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