THE INSPIRATIONAL ATHEIST

Everyone needs some inspiration. Even atheists. This book of quotations is a rationalist’s celebration of life as articulated by the great scientists, philosophers, poets, and novelists throughout history.

THE INSPIRATIONAL ATHIEST is the gift book any atheist would be proud to give or get. The quotations collected here bring together humanity’s brightest bon mots on the subjects that all people, faithful or not, return to in times of stress and challenge: Beauty, Belief, Death, Freedom, Happiness, Life, Love, Morality, and Mystery. It features quotations from a wide range of free thinkers, including Carl Sagan, DH Lawrence, Julia Child, Douglas Adams, Charlotte Bronte, Bertrand Russell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Carlin, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Thomas Jefferson to name a few.

Buzzy Jackson has a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of the award –winning books A Bad Woman Feeling Good and Shaking the Family Tree, as well as the novel Effie Perine. Buzzy now lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her family. She is a Correspondent and book critic for the Boston Globe and a Research Affiliate at The Center of the American West at the University of Colorado.