“I believe in a poetry determined by the language of which it is made. … I look to words, and nothing else, for my own redemption.” …
Publications
Alexander Pope
“What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.” …
Andrei Sakharov
“Like most of the physicists of his generation, he was an atheist. In his later years, this son of a physicist, grandson of a lawyer, and great-grandson of a priest …
José Mujica
“I still have not been able to believe in God.” …
Stephen Girard
“I enjoin and require that no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatever shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said college; nor shall …
Honoré de Balzac
“I am not orthodox, and I do not believe in the Roman Church. I think that if there is a scheme worthy of our kind it is that of human …
John Stuart Mill
“A large proportion of the noblest and most valuable teaching has been the work, not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the …
Ron Reagan
“As for hell, mocking this imaginary threat rather strikes at the heart of religious belief in a way that I suspect most believers only intuitively grasp. It’s a crucial support …
Lorraine Hansberry
“I get tired of God getting credit for all the things the human race achieves.” …
