“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.”

Song lyrics, Mutiny (1993), Mutiny in Heaven

Speech at Tufts University http://www.tufts.edu/home/feature/?p=commencement2007&amp;p4=4 <br class="br">2007

Source: The Zahir

E. Payne, trans., vol. 2, p. 230
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Love Minus Zero/No Limit

Engaged Buddhism, Social Change and World Peace (2014)

&quot;The Christian Religion&quot; The North American Review, August 1881 http://books.google.com/books?id=OPmfAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22There+are+in+nature+neither+rewards+nor+punishments+there+are+consequences%22&amp;pg=PA14#v=onepage http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=nora&amp;cc=nora&amp;view=image&amp;seq=121&amp;idno=nora0133-2<br>Variants:<br>We must remember that in nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences. The life and death of Christ do not constitute an atonement. They are worth the example, the moral force, the heroism of benevolence, and in so far as the life of Christ produces emulation in the direction of goodness, it has been of value to mankind.<br>As published in Some Reasons Why (1895) http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/some_reasons_why.html<br>In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.<br>Letters and Essays, 3rd Series. Some Reasons Why, viii. <br class="br">Source: The Christian Religion An Enquiry <br class="br">Context: There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences. The life of Christ is worth its example, its moral force, its heroism of benevolence.