“Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. … Neither the Bible nor the prophets — neither Freud nor research — neither the …
Publications
David Bowie
“I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.” …
Giuliano Ferrara
“I’m not a converted Catholic. I’m still a nonbeliever, even though my idea of reason is the idea of a reason which is open to mystery.” …
Ralph Miliband
“The political climate in our house was generally and loosely left: it was unthinkable that a Jew, our sort of Jew, the artisan Jewish worker, self-employed, poor, Yiddish-speaking, unassimilated, non-religious, …
John E. Remsburg
“The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused. The darkest wrongs are still inspired by it.” …
Zora Neale Hurston
“Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. …
Nigella Lawson
“I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did …
Carl Sandburg
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to Hell after all would be too damned hard.” …
Nick Clegg
BBC: Do you believe in God? CLEGG: No. … I am not an active believer. …