| Description |
334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-326) and index. |
| Contents |
The ancients -- Omar Khayyam -- Michel de Montaigne -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Other Renaissance figures -- Thomas Hobbes -- Baruch Spinoza -- John Locke -- Baron de Montesquieu -- Voltaire -- David Hume -- Denis Diderot -- Edward Gibbon -- Other figures in the age of enlightenment -- Benjamin Franklin -- John Adams -- Thomas Paine -- Ethan Allen -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- Other early American rationalists -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- John Stuart Mill -- Abraham Lincoln -- Charles Darwin -- Charles Dickens -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Henry David Thoreau -- George Eliot -- Matthew Arnold -- Thomas Henry Huxley -- Leo Tolstoy -- Robert Green Ingersoll -- Mark Twain -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- John Burroughs -- William James -- Ambrose Bierce -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Other figures of the nineteenth century -- Thomas Alva Edison -- Luther Burbank -- Elbert Hubbard -- Sigmund Freud -- George Bernard Shaw -- Clarence Darrow -- Francisco Ferrer -- John Dewey -- George Santayana -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Bertrand Russell -- Albert Einstein -- H.L. Mencken -- Other figures of the early twentieth century -- Margaret Sanger -- Will Durant -- Walter Lippmann -- Langston Hughes -- Ayn Rand -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- A.J. Ayer -- Isaac Asimov -- Gene Roddenberry -- Steve Allen -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Other recent scientists -- Other recent literary figures -- Other recent scholars and reformers -- Others in the arts and entertainment -- Recent political figures -- Troubled believers -- The future? |
| Summary |
Chronologically arranged, this collection of quotations by well-known artists, politicians, scholars, writers, scientists, poets, philosophers, and entertainers offers a look at their opinions and doubts about religion. |
| Subject |
Atheists -- Biography.
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Agnostics -- Biography.
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Agnostics. (OCoLC)fst00800404
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Atheists. (OCoLC)fst00819985
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| ISBN |
1573920673 (alk. paper) |
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9781573920674 (alk. paper) |
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