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AE

Albert Einstein

Secular
Physicist  •  Germany  •  1879

1,859 quotes

TJ

Thomas Jefferson

Secular
1743

1,736 quotes

GS

George Bernard Shaw

Secular
1856

1,289 quotes

VW

Virginia Woolf

Secular

787 quotes

GO

George Orwell

Secular
1903

735 quotes

DL

D. H. Lawrence

Secular
Writer  •  United Kingdom

670 quotes

AS

Arthur Schopenhauer

Secular
Philosopher  •  Germany

571 quotes

TP

Thomas Paine

Secular
1737

505 quotes

GS

George Santayana

Secular
1863

451 quotes

JD

John Dewey

Secular
1859

422 quotes

NM

Niccolo Machiavelli

Secular
1469

372 quotes

DH

David Hume

Secular
Philosopher  •  United Kingdom

367 quotes

HW

H. G. Wells

Secular
1866

341 quotes

GS

Gertrude Stein

Secular
1874

339 quotes

JJ

James Joyce

Secular
Novelist, Writer, Poet, Playwright  •  Ireland  •  1882

306 quotes

GF

Gustave Flaubert

Secular
1821

286 quotes

EG

Emma Goldman

Secular
Activist  •  United States

273 quotes

AG

Andre Gide

Secular
Writer  •  France

241 quotes

HH

Heinrich Heine

Secular
1797

217 quotes

BS

Baruch Spinoza

Secular
Philosopher  •  Netherlands

215 quotes

HA

Henry Adams

Secular
1838

206 quotes

ES

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Secular
Social Reformer  •  United States

198 quotes

OJ

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Secular
1841

197 quotes

BB

Bertolt Brecht

Secular
Writer  •  Germany

190 quotes

DD

Denis Diderot

Secular
Philosopher  •  France

180 quotes

NC

Nicolas Chamfort

Secular
1741

168 quotes

AF

Anatole France

Secular
Writer  •  France

162 quotes

EP

Epicurus

Secular
Philosopher  •  Greece

161 quotes

CP

Cesare Pavese

Secular
Writer  •  Italy

151 quotes

MW

Mary Wollstonecraft

Secular
1759

143 quotes

SZ

Stefan Zweig

Secular
1881

141 quotes

HI

Henrik Ibsen

Secular
1828

136 quotes

LT

Leon Trotsky

Secular
1879

129 quotes

ST

Stendhal

Secular
1783

127 quotes

CG

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Secular
Social Thinker  •  United States

118 quotes

AS

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Secular
Poet  •  United Kingdom

106 quotes

MB

Mikhail Bakunin

Secular
1814

102 quotes

GL

George Henry Lewes

Secular
1817

100 quotes

LU

Lucretius

Secular

100 quotes

ME

Mencius

Secular

100 quotes

SL

Sinclair Lewis

Secular
1885

98 quotes

AH

A. E. Housman

Secular
Poet  •  United Kingdom

96 quotes

AR

Arthur Rimbaud

Secular
Poet  •  France

91 quotes

AA

Alfred Adler

Secular
Psychologist  •  Austria

87 quotes

LB

Louis D. Brandeis

Secular
1856

86 quotes

EZ

Emile Zola

Secular
Writer  •  France

82 quotes

GM

Guy de Maupassant

Secular
1850

81 quotes

MG

Maxim Gorky

Secular
1868

69 quotes

FW

Frances Wright

Secular

68 quotes

ED

Emile Durkheim

Secular
Sociologist  •  France

66 quotes

EO

Eugene O'Neill

Secular
Playwright  •  United States

66 quotes

BT

Benjamin Tucker

Secular
Political Thinker  •  United States

61 quotes

GB

Georg Brandes

Secular
1842

58 quotes

NL

Ninon de L'Enclos

Secular
1620

56 quotes

RB

Ruth Benedict

Secular
1887

56 quotes

TV

Thorstein Veblen

Secular
1857

56 quotes

ER

Ernest Renan

Secular

53 quotes

OS

Olaf Stapledon

Secular
1886

50 quotes

OS

Oswald Spengler

Secular
1880

49 quotes

PP

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Secular
1809

49 quotes

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