Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Wealth

• Creo en la religión de la razón -- el evangelio de este mundo; en el desarrollo de la mente, en la acumulación de riqueza intelectual, con el fin de que el hombre pueda liberarse del miedo supersticioso, con el fin de que pueda aprovechar las fuerzas de la naturaleza para alimentar y vestir al mundo.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Creer, Hombres, Pensar

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1905). "Conferencias y ensayos (una selección)".

• Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Men, Funeral

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4576, Library of Alexandria

• All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Ambition, Insanity

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.978, Library of Alexandria

• Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Character, Men

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

• Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Powerful, Mistake, Successful

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.207, Library of Alexandria

• I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into the house. Let us see what you have. Let us talk it over. If I do not like your thought, I will bid it a polite "good day." If I do like it, I will say: "Sit down; stay with me, and become a part of the intellectual wealth of my world."

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Good Day, Ideas, House

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2196, Library of Alexandria

• If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Effort, Atheism, Would Be

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

• Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love Is, Joy, Soul

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). "Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Incluyendo sus Cartas sobre el Dios Chino--¿Es el Suicidio un Pecado?--El Derecho a la Propia Vida--etc. Etc. Etc."

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