Book Quote by Warren MacKenzie

We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he…

— Warren MacKenzie

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own…

— Charlie Chaplin

So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House,…

— Joseph Heller

Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.

— Jonathan Swift

I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas…

— Bruce Springsteen

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far…

— Richard Dawkins

He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary…

— Jennifer Grant

“What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read…

— Rohinton Mistry

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

— Euripides

Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it was made…

— Jonathon Keats

That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued…

— Jacqueline Carey

He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance…

— Michael Ondaatje