“Back through the centuries whenever people have enjoyed keenly the sights and sounds and other sensations of the world about them, and enjoyed these for what they were — not …
Publications
Émile Zola
“Given Émile Zola’s reputation as an agnostic and a radical thinker, he has often been avoided by scholars with a religious background.” …
Milan Kundera
“I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was …
Abraham Maslow
“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could …
Vladimir Pozner Jr.
“As it is known, I am an atheist. I stridently believe there is no God. It’s not that I run around shouting, ‘There isn’t, there isn’t’ from morning to evening, …
Dick Hewetson
“I remember the last Sunday I was in church — I could not wait for that service to end. I literally ran down the aisle out of church and have …
John Fowles
“Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.” …
Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
“Heresy makes for progress.” …
Olive Schreiner
“But we, wretched unbelievers, we bear our own burdens; we must say, ‘I myself did it, I. Not God, not Satan; I myself!’ ““This thing is certain — he is …
