“I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It’s an old cliché, I know, but it’s mine. I envy people of …
Publications
“Mme. de Stael”
“She spoke much about the preservation of religion, in which, she gave me to understand, she did not herself believe.” …
Robert Patterson
“Talking to god is crazy. Hearing god is schizophrenia. Acting on it is insanity.” …
Vladimir Nabokov
“In the 1920s I was clawed at by a certain Mochulski [Konstantin, a literary critic and philosopher] who could never stomach my utter indifference to organized mysticism, to religion, to …
Narges Mohammadi
“We the people of Iran are transitioning out of the Islamic Republic’s theocracy. Transition won’t be jumping from one point to the next. It will be a long and hard …
Clémence Royer
“Yes, I believe in revelation, but a permanent revelation of man to himself and by himself, a rational revelation that is nothing but the result of the progress of science …
David Chalmers
“Now I have to say I’m a complete atheist. I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views. And consciousness is just …
Dana Nessel
“As I am a member of more than one minority community, it’s led me to be a fervent supporter of separation of church and state.” …
Bertrand Russell (Quote)
“My own view on religion is that of Lucretius [Roman philosopher, c. 99-55 BCE]. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery …
